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Imagining Arizona Agriculture in the Next 20 Years
By Pat Rorabaugh, Ph.D., Lecturer in the School of Plant Sciences and a hydroponic specialist with the Controlled Environment Agriculture Center, University of Arizona. The…
Food Safety, a Joint Effort You Can Help With
By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau Food safety has to be a cooperative effort involving the local, state and national levels, but it all comes…
A Dining Experience I Will Never Forget..Dinner Down the Orchard
By Wendy Kenney, Contributor to Arizona Farm Bureau I didn’t know what to expect when I headed up to Schnepf Farms for their enormously popular…
Social Media Goes Rural…
Farms have been using technology and modern equipment to provide the best possible agricultural products at the most competitive rates, but did you know that…
Arizona Food Prices on the Rise
For the first time in 15 months, Arizona retail food prices at the supermarket increased in the first quarter of 2010, according to the latest…
Egg Production: The Journey of the Eggcellent Egg
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Arizona Farm Bureau Featured Member: Schnepf Farms
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Time to start watching for venomous critters: Rattlers, scorpions, lizards ready to feed
By the Arizona Game and Fish Department Welcome to springtime in Arizona; home to the most dangerous rattlesnake, spider, lizard, and scorpion in the nation.…
Why is America Fat? Art and Science Both Offer Clues
By Tracy Taylor Grondine A recent effort by scholars to uncover the origins of America’s obesity problem turned up some interesting findings. Their research, while…
Arizonans Look to Save on Their Food Budget by Starting Backyard Gardens
By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau For an initial $400 to $500 investment, you can get the freshest vegetables you want. In fact, families are…
Can’t Find Your Green Thumb? Then Try a CSA
By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau So growing your own backyard garden is out of the question, right? Many of our readers say as much.…
Corporate Environmentalism is Generating Big Green
Want to Know How Your Charitable Donations really Work? By Stefanie Smallhouse, Arizona Farm Bureau Second Vice President This is the time of year when…
CHAT WITH A FARMER—AND ASK AWAY!
Have you ever had a question about your home garden that you haven’t known where to get your answers from? Or maybe you’ve always wanted…