138 Years of Agricultural Research provides a concise timeline of agricultural research accomplishments in the US since the Department of Agriculture (USDA) was formed in 1862
Ag News from Texas A&M
AgNIC. The Agricultural Network Information Center.
Agriculture Fact Book 2000 USDA
Agriculture Fact Book 1999
Agriculture Fact Book 1997
AGROECOSYSTEMS: Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems "This analysis determines the extent of agricultural land use and assesses the status of agroecosystems on a global basis"
Agronomy--WebGarden Resources (Ohio State University)
America's Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water --The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Aquaculture Network
Babcock Institute for International Dairy Research
Better Farming The new business magazine for Ontario Agriculture.
BIODYNAMICS notes
Biological Soil Crusts organisms living at the surface of desert soils
Birds, poultry--Feathersite (includes ducks, geese, guinea fowl, pea fowl, pigeons, swans, turkeys, and rare breeds)
Bison--Center for Bison Studies
Books recent NAP books full text online
Cattle, Dairy--Ag sites
Cattlemen on the Hill -information on legislative actions affecting beef producers, plus information on beef safety, cattle health and well-being.
Cattle--NetVet Cows Page
Census of Agriculture-NASS-USDA 1997
Center for Land Use Interpretation information about how the world's lands are apportioned, utilized and perceived
Centre for Energy Efficiency Information(Books) "collects, analyses and enhances the international exchange of impartial information on new, cost-effective, energy-saving technologies... [which] have been demonstrated in industry, buildings, transport, utilities and agriculture"
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century
COUNTRY LIVING page of links
Dogs--Web Sites --huge list of links
EarthTrends environmental information portal
Eaters of the World, Unite Jim Hightower article about where the food industry is going - "Out of each dollar you spend on groceries, only 19 cents goes to the farmer, with corporate middlemen grabbing the rest"
The End of Agribusiness: Dismantling the Mechanisms of Corporate Rule article by Dave Henson
EPAThe Environmental Protection Agency
Espy, Secretary of Agriculture Alphonso Michael investigated and found guilty of taking bribes - this is the final report of the court
FAO: Agriculture 21 --To "promote food security and sustainable development into the next millennium," the Agriculture Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has recently created this new resource. An impressive and clearly arranged interface leads researchers to more than one gigabyte of data from various UN Agriculture Department sites (Scout Report)
Farm Subsidy Database, 1996-2001, Environmental Working Group search by name, zip code, county, or municipality
Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project view transcripts of many old cookbooks; can also view the original pages
Ferrets--Ferret Central
Fish--Campaign for the Abolition of Angling
Fisheries Technical Terms, Definitions of
Flora of North America --binational collaboration of over 800 botanists and 30 institutions in the US and Canada
Florida Agricultural Facts Book 1999
From Domesticity to Modernity: What Was Home Economics? "New scholarship in American women's history suggests that home economics was a progressive field that brought science to the farm home and women into higher education and leadership positions in public education, academia, government and industry" -- includes timeline and biographies
Glossary of Soil Science Terms
International Network For the Improvement of Banana and Plaintain

"History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the king's bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of human folly." (Jean-Henri Fabre)

LIBRARIES
Local Harvest map makes it easy to find family farms, farmers markets and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area
The Meatrix animated with sound
National Agriculture Library
No Fairy Tale: Researchers Spin Straw Into Gold a new technique for extracting microscopic gold particles from wheat, alfalfa, or oats
Northeast Wetland FloraThe USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service's Northeast National Technical Center in Chester, Pennsylvania produced the Northeast Wetland Flora
Organic Europe back-to-basics farming movement
Parrots--Lexicon of Parrots
Peanut Board, National lots of information about the peanut for kids, for nutritionistst, for growers, and for cooks
The Pedosphere the basics of soil
Plant Facts (Ohio State University)
Plants With the Midas Touch: Formation of Gold Nanoparticles by Alfalfa Plants
Pork--"America's Premier Hog Semen Supplier"
Pro Farmer Professional Farmers of America - market-sensitive news and views
Reptile Database --European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) of Heidelberg (Germany)
Research--Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
Safeguarding American Plant Resources review of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service - full text available in PDF
Scholarly Societies in the Agricultural and Food Sciences
SIR-C/X-SAR --Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar is a joint U.S.-German-Italian project that uses a highly sophisticated imaging radar to capture images of Earth.
Small-Scale Fruit Production: A Comprehensive Guide Penn State U.
Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad founded 80 years ago to help prevent suffering to working animals. Its mission is “to improve standards of animal care wherever the need arises” - SPANA operates 19 veterinary centres and 21 mobile clinics which currently treat over 300 000 animals each year. The charity has bases in Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Mali, Syria, Mauritania, Algeria and shortly in Ethiopia
Soil Science a systems approach
Southern Wetland FloraThe US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Soil Conservation Service branch in Fort Worth, Texas produced the Southern Wetland Flora: Field Office Guide to Plant Species
State Fact Sheets USDA
STATISTICS
Texas Forest Service
Urban Agriculture - Cities Feeding People "Many governments now recognize the contribution urban farmers make to cleaner, healthier cities. Most, however, lack policies to integrate urban agriculture into sustainable urban management practices"
USDA Agriculture Fact Book, 2001-2
USDA Current Research Database
USDA - Economic Research Service Search Engine
USDA - ERS Briefings
USDA - ERS Data state fact sheets, foreign agricultural trade, farm income, production, costts and returns, more
USDA Historical Photos
Vertical Farm "The concept of indoor farming is not new, since hothouse production of tomatoes, a wide variety of herbs, and other produce has been in vogue for some time. What is new is the urgent need to scale up this technology to accommodate another 3 billion people"
Veterinary and Vetech --page of links
Water Buffalo Homepage
World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates Monthly USDA forecasts