Alaska Ag Facts
This organization has seven active Chapters which make up the basis of this grassroots organization.
What is the Alaska Farm Bureau?
This is a specific type of tractor used for harvesting.
What is a combine, or combine harvester?
This organization works to support and promote vibrant and sustainable farmers markets throughout Alaska.
What is Alaska Farmer’s Market Association?
SB 27, passed in 2021, is one of the bills that allows for the creation of this new industry.
What is industrial hemp?
This program promotes the purchasing of locally grown and sourced agricultural products.
What is the Alaska Grown Program?
This organization works to permanently protect farmland through agricultural conservation easements.
What is the Alaska Farmland Trust?
Started in 2016 by then Division of Agriculture Director Arthur Keys to celebrate Alaska agriculture by driving your equipment to work.
What is Drive Your Tractor To Work Day?
50
What is the number of farmer’s markets in Alaska in 2021?
These new products are allowed through herd shares because of HB 22, passed in 2021.
What are value added products like cheese, yogurt, ice cream, and butter?
The program encourages Alaskans to spend a certain amount each week on Alaska Grown items.
What is the $5 Challenge?
Allie Barker and Jed Workman of Chickaloon, owners and operators of Chugach Farm, where they grow nutrient-dense food through sustainable and regenerative methods with a focus on living self-sufficiently.
What is Alaska's Farm Family of the Year for 2021?
The year John Deere began manufacturing steel plows.
What is 1837?
The oldest established farmers market in Alaska and the only one located in its own permanent building
What is Tanana Valley Farmer’s Market?
HB 217 changed this from 7% to 15%
What is the Alaska Product Preference Statute?
The plants in this family do well in Alaska, including cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, and kale, and are commonly known as the mustards or crucifers family.
What is Brassicaceae or Cruciferae?
Carrots: 200 acres
Cabbage: 200 acres
Lettuce: 600 acres
Potatoes: 4700 acres
What is the acres needed to be put into production to meet the needs of the entire state’s population?
Mahindra USA is an Indian multinational vehicle manufacturing corporation produces this.
What is the 2nd most popular tractor sold in the US?
Worth $4.5 million to Alaska economy
What is the statewide value of Farmer’s Markets in Alaska?
The year the USDA unveiled organic standards for foods and the official organic seal.
What is 2000?
The focus is to provide quality seed to commercial growers that is varietally pure and relatively free from disease causing organism.
What is the Seed Potato Program?
Created in 1953, this provides loans to farmers.
What is the Agriculture Revolving Loan Fund?
The gas filter, hydraulic filter, belts, a spare key, and a blown fuse.
What are the five most common parts repaired on tractors?
Through this program, participants are issued coupons that they can exchange for Alaska-grown fruits, vegetables and herbs at local Farmers Markets and farm stands.
What is the WIC/Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program?
HB 197, passed in 2018 allowed creating these for individual giving or exchanging of seed that is intended for home, educational, charitable, or noncommercial use in the state and that is harvested from a plant grown here.
What is a community seed library?
Developed by farmer Arthur Keyes of Glacier Valley Farm, and named for the unique silty soil blown down to his farm from nearby glaciers.
What is the Yenesis onion?