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Why Your Favorite Meats Could Soon Disappear!
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07.09.2010

Why Your Favorite Meats Could Soon Disappear!

If you are like 96% of the American population, you enjoy eating meat.  Whether it’s steak, hamburger, pork, fish, or chicken, we consume  on average,…

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Your Food Dollar and the Farmer’s Cut
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06.30.2010

Your Food Dollar and the Farmer’s Cut

By Kevin Rogers, Arizona Farm Bureau President My wife, Janel, does the grocery shopping for our family of five. She’s asking why her food budget…

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What’s in Season, Arizona?
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06.29.2010

What’s in Season, Arizona?

There are so many fruits and vegetables in season in Arizona for the summer and into the fall! Check out the graphic above to see…

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Rescued Recipe:  Short Ribs in Red Wine and Mushroom Sauce
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06.28.2010

Rescued Recipe: Short Ribs in Red Wine and Mushroom Sauce

  Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the Arizona Republic. The author has granted Fill Your Plate reprint permission. By Jan D’Atri Rescued Recipe…

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Farmers; Ranchers Take Their Dog to Work Every Day
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06.24.2010

Farmers; Ranchers Take Their Dog to Work Every Day

By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau Pet Sitters International is celebrating their 12th Annual “Take Your Dog to Work Day” this Friday, June 25th. It…

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Arizona Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Committee Announces Winners of Photo- Poetry, Essay Contest
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06.14.2010

Arizona Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Committee Announces Winners of Photo- Poetry, Essay Contest

By Peggy Jo Goodfellow, Arizona Farm Bureau On a late spring afternoon on the ranch east of Flagstaff, Vickie Park’s grandson, Joseph and husband, Jim,…

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An Unusual Place to Find Sweet Corn
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06.04.2010

An Unusual Place to Find Sweet Corn

If you’ve ever eaten ripe and sugary sweet corn on the cob when it was just picked from the farm, you’ll swear you’ve just tasted…

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Three Guys Walked into a Test Plot: A Professor, a Farmer and An Extension Agent
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02.01.2010

Three Guys Walked into a Test Plot: A Professor, a Farmer and An Extension Agent

Why agriculture technology advances depend more than ever on relationships to protect and advance our healthy, abundant and economical food supply. First in a two-part…

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