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04.26.2010

Arizona BBQ Fans Invited To Enjoy Free Barbecue Meal From Award Winning Joe’s Real BBQ on May 5th, 2010

[caption id="attachment_396" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Getting ready for #freebbqday"][/caption] Arizona BBQ fans are invited to experience one of Arizona’s most famous barbecue restaurants for free!  On…

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04.22.2010

Earth Day 2010: How Some Arizona Farmers Celebrate Every Day!

[caption id="attachment_386" align="alignright" width="199" caption="Buying locally grown produce is earth friendly. Check out the u-pick garden at Schnepf Farms. Photo credit: Foskett Photography"][/caption] Most Americans…

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04.21.2010

Arizona Beef: Some of the Most Flavorful in the World!

[caption id="attachment_380" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Future Rancher Cort Tomerlin is raised on natural beef and his boundless energy attests to that fact. "][/caption] By Julie Murphree,…

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04.19.2010

A Day for Chicks to Shine! Mom Bloggers Flock to Hickman’s Family Farms

[caption id="attachment_373" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Mom Bloggers go hands on at Hickman Egg Farms"][/caption] By Jody Serey, Contributor to Arizona Farm Bureau In early March, the…

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04.06.2010

Egg Production: The Journey of the Eggcellent Egg

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04.05.2010

Arizona Farm Bureau Featured Member: Schnepf Farms

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03.22.2010

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…

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03.17.2010

Young Farmers, Ranchers Face Concerns but Express Optimism

[caption id="attachment_276" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Arizona YF&R team having a good time at the Leadership Conference this year in Tulsa."][/caption] By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau…

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03.10.2010

No Farmers; No Food

By Jody Serey, writer and agriculture enthusiast Many of my relatives were farmers, mostly in Illinois and Indiana. They worked “family farms,” and when times…

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03.01.2010

Chile Acres Finds Its Niche Catering to People With Allergies

Gluten and Dairy-Free Products Allow People to Have Their Cheesecake and Eat It Too! Arizona Farm Bureau member Chile Acres finds its niche in the…

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02.24.2010

Farmers and Ranchers Care About Animal Welfare

Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau [caption id=”” align=”alignleft” width=”353″ caption=”Alan Kessler (center) chats with other ranchers during an Arizona Farm Bureau gathering. Kessler says Arizona…

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02.22.2010

Arizona's State Budget Cuts could put Your Food Safety at Risk

 By Tim Dunn, Arizona Farm Bureau Vice President, and Chair of the Advisory Council for the Arizona Department of Agriculture. Desperate for a balanced state…

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02.16.2010

Farming: The Original ‘Green Collar Job’

By Stewart Truelsen As the economy loses blue collar and white collar jobs, one bright spot in the employment outlook appears to be so-called “green…

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