Agriculture Resources: Agricultural Education & Studies

Indexes and Abstracts
e-Journals

Agricultural Education Web Sites

• Organizations
• Statistics
• Resources
• Miscellaneous

Organizations

• Educating about Agriculture - American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture
• Agricultural Education Division of the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE)
• American Association for Agricultural Education
• National Association of Agricultural Educators
• National Council for Agricultural Education
• National Association of Supervisors of Agricultural Education
• National FFA Alumni Association
• National FFA Foundation
• National FFA Organization - The National FFA Organization was organized as the "Future Farmers of America" in 1928 in Kansas City, Mo.
• National Post-Secondary Agricultural Students Organization
• National Young Farmers Association
• United States Department of Education
• United States Department of Agriculture
• AgrowKnowledge
• Team Ag Ed

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Statistics

• United States
• International
  • United Nations - Statistical Division - provides elected social and economic data from 30 specialized international data sources for all available countries and areas.
  • United Nations Common Database (UNDB) - one of the restricted access databases available at the Parks Library. Data may be retrieved in Excel 97 (.xls), ASCII (CSV) formats, or printer friendly format.
  • Food and Agriculture Organization - Statistics Division. For analytical graphs check the Chartroom

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Resources

• Agrepedia - an Interactive Multimedia Instructional Resource, developed by the University of Kentucky's College of Agriculture
• Agriculture in the Classroom - A program coordinated by the United States Department of Agriculture and carried out in each state.
• Agricultural Thesaurus - National Agriculture Library
• U.S. Department of Education Section II C. Vocational and Adult Education - 2005 Budget summary
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Teaching Center

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Miscellaneous

• 4-H - a youth development organization that helps provide "hands-on" co-educational programs and activities to young people nationwide in collaboration with the youth development education initiatives of the Cooperative Extension System of the United States Department of Agriculture, state land-grant universities and county extension programs.
• Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC) extension publications - Provides links to sites that are primarily Land Grant University Extension Services and Agricultural Experiment Stations publications. The sites are organized by subject and host state.
• American Farm Bureau
• Beginning Farmer Center: Resources to Help Our Next Generation of Farmers - Coordinates education programs and services for beginning farmer efforts statewide.
• Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) - a U.S. Department of Agriculture agency. Congress created CSREES through the 1994 Department Reorganization Act. Provides research and education information on many agriculture related subjects, links to the state land-grant universities, directories, and calendar of events.
• United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) -- Includes the organization's history, membership information, and other documents, as well as information about current activities. Also offers links to extension publications, reference databases, and online journals in the field of agriculture.
• United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) (Selected sites)

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Page last revised on September 14, 2005
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