Arizona Department of Water Resources Wants $5 Per Irrigated Acre from You
And you knew state budget issues would begin to hit all of us…
The Department of Water Resources (DWR) have been tasked by the Governor to become completely fee funded as opposed to reliance on any general fund appropriations. As part of this, DWR just proposed (among other fees) a fee of $5 per irrigated acre. Legislative approval is required.
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Jan D'Atri & Arizona Ag Promote Healthy Eating in the New Year
Arizona Farm Bureau and Jan D'Atri promoted healthy eating recently on her "In the Kitchen with Jan" Radio Show on KFYI AM550. The entire show was devoted to healthy eating and healthy recipes and featured four farmers and a nutritionist. Listen below.
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The Professor, the Farmer and the Extension Agent
Why agriculture technology advances depend more than ever on positive relationships between professors, farmers and extension agents.
Story here
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Arizona Farm Bureau Wins Top Honors!
American Farm Bureau recognized Arizona Farm Bureau for excellence in membership achievement and for implementing outstanding programs serving Arizona Farm Bureau members in 2009 during the 91st Annual Meeting in Seattle.
In photo, AZFB President Kevin Rogers receives the Pinnacle Award from AFBF President Bob Stallman.
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Let's Eat Video Now Available
Arizona Farm Bureau, in conjunction with the Arizona Department of Agriculture and USDA, recently completed an educational video encouraging Arizona families to eat more fruits and vegetables. The Boelts family from Yuma is featured in the video
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AZFB's Fill Your Plate Has a Blog
To provide regular articles to Arizonans, Arizona Farm Bureau recently launched a blog for Fill Your Plate. Articles to this blog will focus on food, recipes, food safety issues and Arizona agriculture information that would be interesting to consumers.
To regularly check it out go to http://fillyourplate.wordpress.com/
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Arizona Food Prices Down for the 5th Straight Quarter
For five consecutive quarters, Arizona retail food prices at the supermarket decreased in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to the latest Arizona Farm Bureau Federation Market Basket Survey. The informal survey shows the total cost of 16 basic grocery items was $45.89, down .13 cents from the third quarter. Comparatively, the American Farm Bureau Federation’s national survey was $42.90, down $3.13 from the third quarter of 2009 and about 15 % less compared to one year ago.
Compared to one year ago the Arizona fourth quarter Market Basket items decreased $8.86, a drop of about 16 percent.
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Audio: 2009 Annual Meeting Speakers' Presentations Available Online!
Arizona Farm Bureau's 2009 Annual Meeting was packed with speakers and their insightful presentations. Select the links below to listen.
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Arizona Agriculture Video Tells Our Story
Arizona Farm Bureau recently updated its video "Today in Arizona Agriculture." If you are wanting an informative and colorful way to tell the Arizona agriculture story send viewers here.
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Employers: Another New I-9 Form and More!
Use of E-Verify is the law in Arizona. If you are hiring do a careful review of all links below. Remember, it is against federal law to use E-Verify on existing employees. Additionally, you cannot use E-Verify to pre-check the legal status of a new hire. You only use E-Verify once you have hired the new employee.
If you sign up for E-Verify (Basic Pilot) you must do so online here. You will be required to take an online tutorial - it can take up to two hours. You will be required to sign a Memorandum of Understanding. You must comply with all of the requirements of the I-9 process and complete an I-9 for each new hire.
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Labor Issues: When ICE or Other Government Agencies Come Knocking ...
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll LLC, provides careful instructions on your rights as an employer and procedures to follow when a government agency visits or calls regarding Social Security MisMatches, including how you should respond if non-governmental third parties contact you seeking information. The law firm encourages you to carefully follow certain steps in order to protect your company and your employees. The three memos below spell out procedures and processes.
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Why Does Visa Reform Remain A Priority?
The two documents below might help us understand why Visa reform remains a priority. This information is provided by ImmigrationWorksUSA
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