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Arizona Farm Bureau Pleased the Farm Bill Passes
[caption id="attachment_9880" align="alignright" width="300"] Arizona Farm Bureau salutes congress for passing a new farm bill.[/caption] Arizona Farm Bureau salutes Congress’ passage of a new farm…
How Climate Change is Affecting Our Farmers – The Challenges
[caption id="attachment_10444" align="alignright" width="300"] Find out how climate change impacts your local produce (photo credit: BigStockPhoto.com)[/caption] The success of farms and ranches has always been…
Chew on This Tour with Hickman Farms
Hickman’s is putting together an event in an effort to help educate people in the areas of agriculture, farming, supply vs. demand, and carbon footprint with the consumers.…
How is Organic Food Different from Other Food?
[caption id="attachment_10200" align="alignright" width="300"] Find out what makes organic food worthy of the organic label. (photo credit: BigStockPhoto.com)[/caption] Everyone wants to make the healthiest choices…
CommonGround Volunteers Discuss Food on Popular Morning Show
Lifetime Network’s “The Balancing Act” welcomes farmers to discuss popular food and farming issues CommonGround volunteer Sara Ross sits down with Danielle Knox to discuss…
Play Your Part in Writing the Story of American Agriculture
[caption id="attachment_10029" align="alignright" width="300"] Do your part to write America’s agricultural story (photo credit: BigStockPhoto.com)[/caption] If you think back over the past 100 years, the…
Ask a Farmer: Should We Get Away From Industrial Farming and Back to the Family Farm?
Questions Moms Ask Arizona Farmers & Ranchers: Response to AZ Mom Question #9 ” Shouldn’t we get away from industrial farming and back to the family farm?…
Ask a Farmer: Why are Tomatoes Picked Green in Commercial Production?
Questions Moms Ask Arizona Farmers & Ranchers: Response to AZ Mom Question #8 “Why are tomatoes picked green in commercial production?” This is a great…
Ask a Farmer: How Do We Get Kids Interested in Farming?
Questions Moms Ask Arizona Farmers & Ranchers: Response to AZ Mom Question #7 “How do we get our kids interested in farming?” (This was posed by…
Arizona Agricultural Exports
[caption id="attachment_9646" align="alignright" width="300"] From a cash receipt perspective, cotton is Arizona’s most valuable export with $360M (photo credit: Arizona Farm Bureau)[/caption] China, Indonesia, and…
Farmer Q&A With Nicholas Larsen, Banana Grower and Farm Bureau Member in Florida
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] There are about 500 acres of bananas grown in Florida. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] This article originally appeared in the January/February 2013…
Ask Questions at Farmers’ Markets
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="240"] A dead giveaway that something being sold at a farmers’ market isn’t local is when something is for sale that’s not…
Farmers’ Markets Create Win-Win-Win
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] American Farm Bureau Federation (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] Robert Giblin, occasional contributor to American Farm Bureau’s “Focus on Agriculture,” suggests that Farmers’…
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