{"id":1,"date":"2025-02-20T22:08:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T22:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs02dev.cdfa.local\/oars-blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2025-03-05T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:40:00","slug":"new_office_name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/oars-blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/new_office_name\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing OARS: A New Name for a Stronger Agricultural Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are excited to announce that our office has a new name: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdfa.ca.gov\/oars\/news\/\">The Office of Agricultural Resilience and Sustainability<\/a> (OARS).\u00a0 This new name better reflects our mission to strengthen the agricultural system while also addressing the challenges of the future. Along with the name change, we have introduced a new, unified logo that replaces our many siloed grant program logos, symbolizing our shared mission across all programs. Over the next few months, you will notice updates to our communications that incorporate the new name and logo. We encourage you to share this information with your colleagues, partners and stakeholders. You can find our official announcement and our new logo here, as well as our recently updated mission and vision statements.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision to rebrand was rooted in the evolution of CDFA\u2019s relationship to sustainable farming over the last 30 years.&nbsp; Our original name, \u201cThe Office of Environmental Farming and Innovation (OEFI),\u201d stemmed from the Canella Environmental Farming Act of 1995. The Canella Act laid the groundwork for our incentive programs and codified the Department\u2019s commitment to advancing sustainability through science. Today, our programs not only support a healthy environment \u2013 marked by clean water, fresh air, and thriving biodiversity -but also the social and economic health of California&#8217;s farms and ranches. Looking forward, we also recognize the need to build resilience for the challenges ahead- from extreme weather to regulatory changes. We must develop research, demonstration and incentive grant programs to help agricultural stakeholders adapt and thrive.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re excited to announce that our office has a new name: The Office of Agricultural Resilience and Sustainability (OARS). This change reflects our commitment to strengthening agriculture while addressing future challenges. Alongside the name change, we\u2019ve introduced a unified logo, symbolizing our shared mission across programs. This rebrand marks the evolution of our role in sustainable farming, building on decades of progress since the Canella Environmental Farming Act of 1995. As we move forward, OARS will continue to support California\u2019s farmers and ranchers through research, incentives, and innovation to ensure resilience in an ever-changing landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-1","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-informational","8":"tag-information","10":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/oars-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Untitled-4.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/oars-blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/oars-blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/oars-blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/oars-blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/oars-blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/oars-blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/oars-blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/oars-blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/oars-blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/oars-blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/oars-blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}