Friday Food Facts

Go to any Arizona grocery store and you’ll be surrounded by local food. You can find it in the dairy, meat and egg case and the produce aisle. In fact, 53% of the beef in the meat case comes from Arizona ranches like mine.

Farming, Fishing, Forestry, and Mining are every economy’s most important sectors. Without them, other industries cannot exist. Arizona agriculture is a 23-billion-dollar industry. We need farming and ranching and that’s why I’m proud to be an Arizona rancher.

Right now, Yuma farmers are producing so many fresh leafy greens, they’re supplying about 130 million servings to the U.S. and Canada every single day. Annually, when you add California that translates to 50 billion servings for our two countries.

Both methods of farming, Arizona Organic and Conventional farming are more alike than different. They both have well-established markets. They both use approved pesticides and they both feed us with the same level of nutrition.

June is Dairy month! 97% of milk in our Arizona grocery stores comes from our local Arizona dairies where the cows make the freshest milk, cheese, and yogurt. A dairy cow will produce 7 to 8 gallons of milk every day.