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Making High Quality Milk Begins with Healthy Cows
At Arizona dairy farms the health and wellbeing of the cows is everyone’s number one priority. From the minute the sun comes up, the dedicated…
Celebrate National Farmers Market Week
The USDA has proclaimed this week to be National Farmers Market Week. (read the proclamation here) and for good reason! Farmers markets and other forms of direct to consumer agriculture total about…
Rising Food Prices Part I: A Farmer’s Point of View
First in a series on rising food prices. By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau I know how to keep food prices down: Tap the tundra…
Hopi Agricultural Expo & Photo Exhibit
Join us for the first of many events sponsored by the Natwani Coalition’s Hopi Agricultural Expo & Photo Exhibit on January 22, 2011 from 10am…
Arizona Farm Bureau Gives Website Dedicated to Arizona Food and Farms A Facelift
Updated Sites Provides Comprehensive Resources for All Things Related to Arizona Food Arizona Farm Bureau recently relaunched its Fill Your Plate website as part of…
ASU Speaker Series: Arizona’s Food Production, the Facts and Faces of our Farmers
On December 2, 2010, ASU West Campus is hosting a panel of agriculturalists for their “Think” Thursdays in Kiva series. Beginning at 6:00 pm, this…
Arizona’s wheat – all it’s cracked up to be
Wheat is one of the world’s oldest and most important crops grown and Arizona is a big player in the wheat field! A report recently…
Is “Made in the USA” a dying term?
By Dal Grooms U.S. manufacturers feel much-maligned by the business press, which consistently points out technology advances and productivity increases in developing markets such as…
Continued Litigation on Public Lands Could Mean an End to Grazing
Your Tax Dollars Fund Environmental Groups’ Suits By Ty Kelly & Anita Waite, Mohave County Farm Bureau and Bonnie Jones & Philip Bashaw, Arizona Farm…
Opportunities Abound for Farmers to Sell Products to the Direct Market
By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau Yuma farmer Tim Dunn of Tim Dunn Farms already grew a number of crops. These included seed and specialty…
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,…
Pesticides: To Be or Not To Be?
Most people would assume that the life of a strawberry is free of dramatics and controversy. But recent discussions regarding the pesticides that are used…
NRCS Offers Help for Agricultural Energy Audits Individual energy audits will help Arizona producers reduce energy use
PHOENIX, May 25, 2010 — Arizona farmers, ranchers, dairies, nursery growers, and other agricultural producers can apply for financial help to get an energy audit…
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