Update your GATE Information or Reorder a Card
2025If you have received your 2025 card and need to change the information on the card, you can login to update your information and order a replacement copy of the card at a cost of $30. **...
Search Licenses
Use this page to search for any license issued by GDA except Applicators and Pest Control Employees.Search for licensed Commercial or Private Applicators.Search for Structural Pest Companies,...
FIFRA Section 24c, Special Local Need
Section 24(c) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) allows for registration of a pesticide product as a Special Local Need (SLN).Special local need means an existing...
Commissioner Tyler J Harper
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Livestock Sales and Events Calendar
Notices for auctions selling farm-related items other than livestock must be accompanied by the auction license number of the principal auctioneer or auction firm conducting the auction, per...
Yellow-Legged Hornet
In August 2023, the Georgia Department of Agriculture (GDA), in coordination with the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) and the University...
Open Records Requests
Georgia’s Open Records law provides the public with broad access to departmental records and documents. The public has a right to see, inspect and copy all “public records.” However, no...
Apply for a GATE Card
2025 - 2027The GATE season for 2025 - 2027 is open now. The cost is $150, and the effective date of your new card will be the date payment was made. If you already have a GATE Card number, check...
Location
Before You Get Started Check your local city and/or county zoning laws to ensure that a livestock slaughter and/or meat processing business is permitted in the area you’re considering. You must...