CA Water Code Section 50952

A district may employ an expert in agriculture and related matters and such assistants as may be deemed necessary to do any of the following:

(a)

Supervise the construction of works for the irrigation or protection of district lands.

(b)

Advise landowners, or any person engaged in farming district land, of methods of increasing the productiveness of such land or as to any matters of husbandry.

(c)

Conduct experiments as prescribed by the board.

(d)

Perform duties for the general welfare of the people of the district as prescribed by the board.