To ensure that the farmers and ranchers of Arizona are provided with excellent information and coordination for resolving disputes under the state and federal mediation and resolution management programs. This effort is to rectify past problems that have faced farmers and ranchers during crisis situations where no central medium existed for resolving disputes involving credit, trade, and other business issues.

• Develop new ways, technologies, uses, and strategies for improving current dispute resolution in partnership with governmental, industrial, and tribal leaders. This will help develop a successful and sustainable agribusiness and resource management plan for rural Arizona.
• Assist small and medium size agricultural and agribusiness enterprises with dispute resolution and mediation research by extending services to all ranchers, farmers, and tribes in the State.
• Support technical and mediation education by strengthening linkages between universities, community colleges, program coordinators, service sectors and industry.

Agricultural Disputes

Arizona disputes can be from any sector of the $180 billion agricultural industry based in the Southwest; focusing in large part on agriculture, agribusiness, the food industry, agriculture real estate, natural resource management, agri-exporters and agri-industrial technology. The need for agricultural and rural mediation has never been greater. Arizona farmers, ranchers, and agribusinesses can use the Arizona Agricultural Mediation Program at Arizona State University's Polytechnic campus.