In 1919 USDA posted to London an agricultural commissioner without diplomatic status, Edward Foley, to report on British agriculture.

Noted American author Mark Twain recounted meeting one of the 19th-century roving agricultural commissioners in Innocents Abroad:

Last week Franz Fischler, the union's agricultural commissioner, criticized American farm spending, saying the Clinton administration had increased spending to record levels.

"We do not accept the American long-term goal; it is not a feasible option," Frans Andriessen, the community's Danish agricultural commissioner, said recently.

"I didn't realize Alabama had any peaches at all," said Thomas T. Irvin, Georgia's agricultural commissioner since 1969.

"The improvised articulation led by Brazil is something from another planet," said Franz Fischler, the European Union's agricultural commissioner.

Much of the decline represents farmers not driven out of business but selling newly valuable real estate, the state's agricultural commissioner said.

In 1911, Sutton was appointed agricultural commissioner for the Western Australian wheat belt.

The proposal is to be presented for approval later this month to a meeting of agricultural commissioners from the nine states in the region.

Richard W. Nutter, Monterey County's agricultural commissioner, said the latest string of rainstorms were "probably the worst the county has experienced in modern times."