Agriculture & Aquaculture

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

Resources in this category:

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.

Agricultural Communications Documentation Center
http://web.aces.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.

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.

Alberta Barley Commission
http://www.albertabarley.com/

Sponsored by Canada's Alberta Barley Commission, this website provides extensive information about barley and the grain's uses, along with professional resources for farmers and researchers. The Commission "enables Alberta farmers to invest in positive initiatives that promote a vibrant barley industry"; growers can access information about marketing, production and policy, while researchers are offered results from previous studies and guidance for project funding and proposals. The site also includes sections with recipes and targeted at kids.

Bioenergy Information Network
http://bioenergy.ornl.gov/

Gateway to information about fast growing trees, grasses, and residues for fuels and power. "The OFD funds research and analyses on liquid and gaseous fuels produced from dedicated energy crops such as grasses and fast-growing short-rotation trees. The projects focus on the domestic production, recovery, and conversion of these feedstocks to economically priced, environmentally beneficial fuels such as ethanol, methanol and biodiesel." Sponsored by the United States Department of Energy.

Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture
http://www.fao.org/biotech/

"This website contains a range of features that may be of value to anyone interested in the role and impact of biotechnology in food and agriculture. These features include: FAO Statement on Biotechnology; An overview of FAO's activities in this area, which include providing advice and assistance to Member Countries, disseminating information and monitoring new developments; An overview of biotechnology in the agro-industry, crop, fisheries, forestry and livestock sectors; The FAO Electronic Forum on Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture, which operates a series of moderated e-mail conferences."

California Department of Food and Agriculture
http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/

This site has everything you need to know about farming and agriculture in California. Contains California-specific information about trade, insects and pests, fairs and expositions, and much more.

FAOSTAT Statistics Database
http://faostat.fao.org/default.aspx

"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."

Food & Nutrition Information Center
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/

A directory of credible, accurate, and practical resources for consumers, nutrition and health professionals, educators and government personnel. Visitors can find printable format educational materials, government reports, research papers and more.

Horticulture Information Leaflets
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/

Provides the full text of all of the pamphlets that the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service has developed. These included pamphlets on vegetables, speciality crops, fruit, flowers, landscape design, weather information, and home gardening. The pamphlets include information on planting, harvesting, irrigating, soil improvement, weed control, etc. Although designed especially for North Carolina, the information can be useful for gardeners throughout the country.

INFOMINE - Comprehensive Biological, Agricultural & Medical Internet Resource Collection
http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?bioag

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 activities 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.

INVADERS Database System
http://invader.dbs.umt.edu/

"The INVADERS Database is a comprehensive database of exotic plant names and weed distribution records for five states in the northwestern United States. The spatial and temporal spread of weeds can be displayed using the historic distribution records in INVADERS. The INVADERS web site contains actual examples of how land management and weed regulatory agencies are using these data to improve their weed management programs. Noxious weed listings are provided for all US states and six southern tier Canadian provinces."

Land Use History of the Colorado Plateau
http://www.cpluhna.nau.edu/index.htm

Environmental history; summary of a vast body of research from multiple disciplines in an easily accessible format.

Learning More about Llamas
http://www.llamaweb.com/Learning.html

Learn about the types of llamas, their care and feeding, uses, breeding, showing, sheering, training, and more at this site. Includes events, services, uses and related sites regarding llamas.

Local Harvest
http://www.localharvest.org/

Looking for a place to buy locally grown produce and dairy products? Use this "living" public directory of small farms nationwide, designed to provide people with direct contact to farms in their local area and to strengthen the Internet connection among direct-marketing farmers. Just click on the zoomable map to find a farmer's market, organic farm, u-pick farm, or dairy producer near you.

National Agricultural Statistics Service for U.S. Agriculture Statistical Information and Graphs
http://www.usda.gov/nass/

Each year, the employees of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) conduct hundreds of surveys and prepare reports covering virtually every facet of U.S. agriculture -- production and supplies of food and fiber, prices paid and received by farmers, farm labor and wages, farm aspects of the industry. The online reports include their publications, charts and maps, and historical data.

NOVAGate
http://novagate.nova-university.org/

"NOVAGate is a gateway to quality-assessed Internet resources in the fields of forestry, veterinary, agricultural, food and environmental sciences. The database is produced and maintained by the libraries of the NOVA University."

PLANTS Database
http://plants.usda.gov/

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.

U.S. Department of Agriculture
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdahome

This official site of the U.S. Department of Agriculture provides Department information as well as resources organized by audience and subject. Links to agencies within the USDA are helpful as well as links to USDA Publications, such as the Agricultural Fact Book. It also contains information on the Department, such as services and news. Users can perform both basic and advanced searches, and browse by audience (i.e., Consumers, Cooperatives, Producers) or by subject (i.e., Food and Nutrition, Laws and Regulations, Marketing and Trade). The site is also available in Spanish.

U.S. State Fact Sheets
http://www.ers.usda.gov/statefacts/

"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."

UCBiotech
http://ucbiotech.org/

This site is sponsored by the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. It contains news and general information about biotechnology. It also includes a database of 1000 scientific publications for researchers and educational resources for teachers.

USDA Agriculture Fact Book
http://www.usda.gov/factbook/

"The Agriculture Fact Book is a handy reference tool that offers information about U.S. Agriculture and describes all USDA programs. It also provides useful information about food safety, nutrition, rural issues, research, education, and natural resources." The most recent Fact Book, as well as previous Fact Books, can be viewed online or downloaded in either pdf or html format.

USDA Foreign Agriculture Service
http://www.fas.usda.gov/

Official site of the Foreign Agricultural Service, a division of the US Department of Agriculture. FAS works to improve foreign market access for U.S. products, and operates programs designed to build new markets and improve the competitive position of U.S. agriculture in the global marketplace.

USDA Online Photo Center
http://www.usda.gov/oc/photo/opclibra.htm

Over 20,000 digitized photographs of agricultural subjects, including a section of historical photographs.

Virtual Nebraska
http://www.casde.unl.edu/index.php

Where Nebraska's past meets its future! Read about Nebraska history with Our Towns, a "compilation of histories of all incorporated municipalities in the state", and learn more about the role of space data "to stimulate and challenge K-12 students to acquire and use scientific, mathematical, and other skills."