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Get Your Hot Healthy On With Chilies
By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau Arizona can claim to be one of the best places to breed hybrid chili plants. Rumor has it that…
An Open Letter to Dairy Cows
By Lauren Scott, Arizona Farm Bureau Intern Dear Dairy Cows, It’s Dairy Month, and I’d like to recognize you! I’ve lived in Arizona my whole…
Arizona Farmers get more Crop per Drop
By Lauren Scott, Arizona Farm Bureau Intern Water is important to farmers and ranchers across the globe, it grows their crops and waters their livestock,…
Farming Family Holiday Traditions
By Lauren Scott, Arizona Farm Bureau Intern Have you ever noticed that as Christmas dinner starts, so do the stories? Mom talks about work and…
Cacti of Arizona: The Prickly Pear
By Lauren Scott, Arizona Farm Bureau Intern With its big flat pads that look like hands reaching toward the sky, the prickly pear is by…
Arizona’s Fall Pumpkin, Corn Maze and Halloween Festivals 2015
With temperatures beginning to slowly drop, we can almost say the feeling of fall is in the air! Don’t miss out on all of the…
Travel Guide to Arizona’s Farms and Ranches
Check out the Arizona Farm Bureau’s new travel guide in this article here. This travel guide was created to cater to the growing number of people…
The Hohokam People, Ancient Arizona Farmers
The Hohokam were one of the United States’ first great Native American civilizations. They inhabited parts of southern and central Arizona near the Salt, Gila,…
Tolmachoff Farms is Offering AZ Locals an Opportunity to Pick Their Own Produce off the Farm
Tolmachoff Farms would like to invite Arizona locals to eat and think local when it comes to picking out their produce. Tolmachoff Farms is a…
Applications now open for the Farm Bureau Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge!
Check out the Farm Bureau Challenge promotional video.
Experience Arizona From A Different Point Of View With Arizona Dude Ranch Vacations
Arizona is known for its beautiful landscapes, some of the most popular being the Grand Canyon, The Painted Desert, and Monument Valley. We are a…
National Prime Rib Day
April 27th is National Prime Rib Day! If you are anything like us, the mention of prime rib gets your mouth watering. Prime rib is…
Little-Known Facts about Carrots that Will Make You Go “What’s Up Doc?”
Did you know that ancient Romans and Greeks ate carrots, but not the orange varieties we know today? They ate wild varieties of various other…
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Crunching the Numbers on Arizona Agriculture: What the Latest USDA Census Reveals About Our Farms and Families
Three generations of the Caywood family work on their farm in Pinal County. Begun in 1930, the farm is currently a women-owned operation with the…
What Nutrition Does Rice Have? A Complete Guide to Rice’s Nutritional Value
Rice has always been one of those foods that seems to divide opinions. Some people swear by it and include it in nearly every meal,…
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