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Agriculture Reference

The science and art of farming, including the work of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock.

Resources in this category are:

AgNIC: Agriculture Network Information Center

http://www.agnic.org/

The Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC) is an comprehensive electronic source of agricultural information with links to information that is available electronically. Agricultural information includes basic, applied, and developmental research, extension,and teaching activities in the food, agricultural, renewable natural resources, forestry, and physical and social sciences. Provides a searchable database of agricultural databases, reference and help pages on various topics such as animal sciences, plant sciences, food and nutrition, rangeland management, rural information, economic statistics.

Author: National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture (agnic@nal.usda.gov)

Subjects:

Sciences & Technology--Agriculture

Keywords: Farming

AGRICOLA

http://www.nal.usda.gov/ag98/ag98.html

"AGRICOLA is a database of bibliographic records created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators. The database covers materials dating from the 16th century to the present. The records describepublications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines. AGRICOLA does not contain the materials themselves, but can help you identify and find them." There are separate searches for book and for journal articles.

Author: National Agriculture Library, U.S. Dept of Agriculture (ag98help@nal.usda.gov)

Subjects:

Sciences & Technology--Agriculture

Agricultural Communications Documentation Center

http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~agcomdb/docctr.html

"The Agricultural Communications Documentation Center contains more than 14,500 citations involving communications related broadly to agriculture, food, natural resources, rural people and rural issues in more than 90 countries. Believed to be the largest existing collection in this subject area, it contains considerable information of possible interest to students and others. It can be searched from approaches of title, author, topic, source and other aspects. A comprehensive thesaurus is available to aid users." Note: this is a bibliographic resource; the materials listed cannot be accessed online from this site.

Author: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (doc_center@ilces.ag.uiuc.edu)

Subjects:

Sciences & Technology--Agriculture

Keywords: Bibliography

Agricultural Market Information Virtual Library

http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/market/contents.htm

A resource guide for agricultural market information. Includes market prices, outlook reports, quotes, publications, and links."This guide may be of use to agricultural economists, market information analysts, librarians, and others who are interested in market information. Although the web site concentrates partly on grains, many of the same references to web sites in this virtual library refer to many other types of commodities that may be of interest. Certain commodities were chosen to help market specialists in Africa gain pertinent market information on these commodities rapidly through the Internet." Available in downloadable PDF.

Author: Jean-Charles Le VallŽe (levallee@pilot.msu.edu)

Subjects:

Sciences & Technology--Agriculture

Business & Economics--Economics

Keywords: Commodities; Outlook; Market

The Agricultural Revolution

http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vwsu/gened/learn-modules/top_agrev/agrev-index.html

"This learning module is intended to:
1.supplement the text of GenEd 110 "World Civilizations I" of Washington State University by providing some essential background information about human culture prior to the development of civilized communities; 2.provide a simple conceptual model of the earth, and all life upon it, as dependent upon a solar-driven system; 3.provide a simple conceptual model of soil as the fundamental resource of civilization; 4.provide a sharp, intelligible contrast between the old ancestral mode of life (hunting and gathering) and sedentary agriculture; 5.identify a set of basic problems and opportunities inherent in the new way of life (sedentary agriculture); 6.provide a template for understanding and comparing subsequent cultural systems in terms of their responses to that basic set of problems and 0pportunities."

Author: Learning Modules, Washington State University (rlaw@wsu.edu)

Subjects:

Sciences & Technology--Agriculture

Arts & Humanities--History

Keywords: earth; soil; domestication

FAOSTAT Statistics Database

http://apps.fao.org/

"FAOSTAT is an on-line and multilingual database currently containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in the following areas: production, trade, food balance sheets, food aid shipments, fertilizer and pesticides, land use and irrigation, forest products, fishery products, population, and agricultural machinery." 

Author: FAO (faostat-inquiries@fao.org)

Subjects:

Business & Economics--Statistics

Business & Economics--Economics

Sciences & Technology--Agriculture

Keywords: nutrition; fisheries; forestry; food; crops

INFOMINE - Comprehensive Biological, Agricultural & Medical Internet Resource Collection

http://infomine.ucr.edu/search/bioagsearch.phtml

Large annotated collection of Internet resources related to biology, agriculture and medicine. Resources have been determined to be "'of use' as a scholarly information resource in research or educational activites at the university level." Collection can be searched or browsed by subject, keyword or title. Part of The Library of the University of California, Riverside's INFOMINE.

Author: Steve Mitchell (smitch@ucrac1.ucr.edu)

Subjects:

Sciences & Technology--Biological Sciences

Health & Medical Sciences

Sciences & Technology--Agriculture

Not Just Cows: Guide to Agriculture and Agricultural Resouces on the Internet and the WWW

http://www.morrisville.edu/~drewwe/njc/

The purpose of this guide to direct the user to the best resources in agriculture that are available on the INTERNET. This guide is simply a place to begin and is not comprehensive. International in its scope, this site includes links to commercial and non-commercial Web sites, agriculture libraries, databases, USENET newsgroups, discussion groups, and e-journals.

Author: Wilfred E. Drew, Jr.

Subjects:

Sciences & Technology--Agriculture

PLANTS National Database (USDA)

http://plants.usda.gov/plants/

This web site is a center for National Plant information. The PLANTS database "focuses on the vascular and nonvascular plants of the United States." The database includes distributional data on species, crop information, checklists, plant growth data, and reference to other plant resources. In addition, the database contains a plant photogallery.

Author: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Center, National Plant Data Center (plants@plants.usda.gov)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Home & Garden

Sciences & Technology--Biological Sciences--Plant Biology (Botany)

Sciences & Technology--Agriculture

Keywords: Plant Database; Plant Classification

Texas Longhorn Range Cattle

http://www.txlonghorn.com/

All about Texas Longhorn cattle, including history, ranches, breeding and selling.

Author: Mike Leathers (barranca@txlonghorn.com)

Subjects:

Sciences & Technology--Biological Sciences--Zoology--Mammals

Sciences & Technology--Agriculture

Keywords: Cows; Ranching; Farming

Tropical Fruits

http://www.aloha.com/~ritt/

"Tropical Fruit describes common and uncommon tropical fruit, tells how to use them, and gives a brief history of each fruit. It also links to other tropical fruit sites and Hawaii sites."

Author: Marilyn R. Harris (ritt@aloha.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Food

Sciences & Technology--Agriculture

Keywords: Hawaii; fruit; recipes

U.S. State Fact Sheets

http://www.econ.ag.gov/epubs/other/usfact/

"The [United States Department of Agriculture] State Fact Sheets contain information on: Population, Per-capita income, Earnings per job, Poverty rate, Total number of jobs, Unemployment rate, Percent employment change, Farm & farm related jobs, Top export commodities, Farm characteristics, and Farm financial indicators."

Author: Tom Carlin (tcarlin@econ.ag.gov)

Subjects:

Sciences & Technology--Agriculture

Reference--Census Data & Demographics

Business & Economics--Labor and Workplace

Keywords: Farming

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