Bureau of Education and Communication

Division of Marketing and Development
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

Bureau Chief
Walt Land
landw@doacs.state.fl.us

Address:
Bureau of Education and Communication
Mayo Building, M35
407 South Calhoun Street
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-6555

Telephone:
(850) 487-8000 Main
(850) 487-8188 Graphics
(850) 487-8141 Florida Market Bulletin

Fax:
(850) 488-2888 Main
(850) 488-1884 Graphics
(850) 922-2189 Florida Market Bulletin

Role:
The Bureau of Education and Communication provides creative design services that facilitate a variety of promotional, marketing and public awareness campaigns. The bureau helps educate and inform consumers through the production of news releases, brochures and other print publications, graphics presentations, the Internet, television and radio. The bureau is organizationally positioned within the Division of Marketing and Development, where it performs its primary role of executing marketing campaigns on behalf of Florida's agricultural community. Bureau productions are a major component of the Florida Agricultural Promotional Campaign (FAPC), which assists the state's agricultural industry in expanding markets and promoting and selling Florida-grown products under the "Fresh from Florida" label. The bureau works with other divisions to distribute press releases to inform the public about various regulatory and promotional activities of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. The bureau produces the Florida Market Bulletin, the Department Annual Report and the Open Lines employee newsletter. The bureau mails out marketing publications and other informational and promotional materials upon request.

Bureau of Education and Communication
Last	First	Telephone	Email	Bio
Barekat	Shahla	(850) 487-8185	barekas@doacs.state.fl.us
Beatty	Jennifer	(850) 487-8181	beattyj@doacs.state.fl.us
Bigelow	Peter	(850) 487-8182	bigelop@doacs.state.fl.us
Burke	Frost	(850) 487-8175	burkef@doacs.state.fl.us
Cason	Mark	(850) 487-8183	casonm@doacs.state.fl.us
Codrick	Vince	(850) 487-1344	codricv@doacs.state.fl.us
Faurot	Alana	(850) 487-8141	faurotj@doacs.state.fl.us
Hill	Richard	(850) 487-1625	hillr@doacs.state.fl.us
Humphries	Bill	(850) 487-8186	humphrw@doacs.state.fl.us
Kimel	Leslie	(850) 487-8006	kimell@doacs.state.fl.us
King	Laura	(850) 487-0010	kingl1@doacs.state.fl.us
Land	Walt	(850) 487-8057	landw@doacs.state.fl.us
Lurding	Rick	(850) 487-8177	lurdinr@doacs.state.fl.us
Mashburn	Byrd	(850) 487-8155	mashbub@doacs.state.fl.us
Seamans	Gary	(850) 487-0622	seamang@doacs.state.fl.us
Tesori	Toni	(850) 487-2347	tesorit@doacs.state.fl.us
Wright	Mike	(850) 487-8137	wrights@doacs.state.fl.us