Agriculture Commissioner

NBC 6’s Jackie Nespral spoke with Florida’s Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried about recently passed bills, inflation and Florida’s lawsuit against the travel mask mandate.

Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Nikki Fried’s Twitter account was hacked Saturday, according to a statement from her campaign office. Fried’s Twitter account was compromised through a phishing attack, according to the release. The statement said the campaign is doing everything they can to get Twitter support to fix it as quickly as possible. The public is...

Jackie Nespral sits down with Florida’s Agriculture Commissioner about her decision to make a run for Governor in 2022.

Ducks Unlimited said Adam Putnam advocated for Florida’s water resources as commissioner and expanded its best management water practices program.

Florida now has a director of cannabis, who will be tasked with developing a hemp industry for the Department of Agriculture.

A suspended Florida county elections supervisor who failed to meet deadlines during recounts after November’s election has resigned.

Florida officials say thousands of mailed ballots were not counted because they were delivered too late to state election offices.

Florida Republican Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis is tapping a former House speaker to be education commissioner and a Democratic state representative to head the state’s Division of Emergency Management.

Newly elected Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried is vowing to do a “deep dive” of the state’s concealed weapons permit program once she is sworn into office.

The Elections Canvassing Commission finalized the results shortly after 9 a.m., two weeks after the Nov. 6 election, after which candidates traded allegations of uncounted ballots and voter fraud.

Nikki Fried’s campaign manager, Alicia Stallworth, said that BB&T called the campaign Aug. 29 to tell them that their bank account had to be closed within 30 days.

Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum and U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson are headlining Friday’s rally at a union hall in Orlando.

Florida voters legalized medical marijuana in 2016, but some banks are reluctant to do business with an industry that remains illegal under federal law.

A Florida candidate for agriculture commissioner says Wells Fargo terminated her campaign account because she supports medical marijuana.

More than one million voters have cast ballots in the state’s crucial primary election. The Florida Division of Elections website says that so far more than 861,000 voters have mailed in their ballots. Nearly 163,000 people have voted at early voting polling places.

The pair will debate just over a week after President Donald Trump held a rally in Florida to pump up DeSantis’ campaign.

The winner of the Aug. 28 primary will face either Congressman Ron DeSantis or Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, who are seeking the Republican nomination.

The five Democratic candidates for Florida governor sped through a wealth of issues during a fast-moving debate Wednesday.

Trump in late December also said DeSantis would be a great governor but that was before he had even jumped into the race.