Agricultural Information

• AgNIC Plant Science Homepage -- Provides links to plant-related information, including a reference service, genetics and taxonomy, plant protection, crop production, electronic publications, education, people and association, reference tools and the AgNIC project.
• Agricultural Information Resources
• U. S. Department of Agriculture -- Selected sites http://www.lib.iastate.edu/collections/eresourc/ag-gov-toc.html

Agronomic Crops

Corn

• Cooperative Federal-State Maize Breeding Project - Provides links to project member's homepages and other related links describing the project.
• Corn Connection - Links to sources of information about managing, growing, harvesting, storing and marketing grain corn and corn silage crops and about corn itself.
• Germplasm Enhancement of Maize - Provides a description of the cooperative effort of the United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service, land-grant universities, and industry to widen the germplasm base of commercial hybrid corn in the United States through the introduction and incorporation of novel and useful germplasm gathered from around the globe.
• Iowa Corn - Provides links to the Iowa Corn Promotion Board and the Iowa Corn Growers Association.
• Maize and Wheat Facts and Trends (CIMMYT) - Provides access to titles: World maize facts and trends and World wheat facts and trends.
• Maize Genetic Cooperation Stock Center - The Maize Genetics Cooperation Stock Center is part of the National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS). The Center specializes in maize genetic stocks. Includes the history of the Cooperation and discusses the collection at the Center, which includes nearly 80,000 individually pedigreed samples. Highlights the services offered, such as the Maize Genome Database and a newsletter. Offers information on the value of the stocks.
• Maize Page - ISU site. Provides links to a variety of resources for students, producers and specialists: general, technical and product information; information on corn diseases; yields and hybrid seed trials, genes and germplasm; market and cost of product information.
• MaizeDB: Welcome to MaizeDB, the Maize Genome Database - Provides user-friendly internet access to the maize genome as the basis for the biology of maize.
• World of Corn - Statistics on corn production and consumption.

Soybean

• SoyBase Home Page - SoyBase is a database for soybean genetic information and genome mapping. It is part of the legume database project at Iowa State University and funded by the USDA-ARS Plant Genome Program. This page was designed to give geneticists and breeders easy access to data from many laboratories, the literature and other databases (Genbank, GRIN, PVP, BIOSIS, AGRICOLA). A link is provided for access to SoyBase.
• Soybean Tissue Culture and Genetic Engineering Center - Has information about the Center, which was established by the United Soybean Board in 1995. The long-term goals of the Center will be to ensure that engineering technology for the soybean continues to improve, and to introduce agronomically important genes into the soybean.
• National Soybean Research Laboratory - The National Soybean Research Laboratory facilitates proactive programs that can provide effective responses to emerging market conditions, help insure the health and well-being of consumers, and increase profitability in the soybean industry.
• United Soybean Board
• StratSoy -Information related to soybean production, markets, and utilization.
• VegEdge - This site provides timely information about all aspects of vegetable crop integrated pest management, with particular focus on insect pest management in the Midwestern United States.
• Center for Crops Utilization Research - The Center "is responding to the urgent need to improve American agricultural competitiveness by developing new products, markets, and processing techniques, as well as by improving our understanding of the basic properties of agricultural products and their components"-Center overview.
• Soygrowers - Web site prepared by the American Soybean Association which covers farm and trade policy, news, membership, exports, leadership and corporate partners.

Agronomic Websites

• International - Compiled by the Agronomy Department, Purdue University.
• State based focus - Compiled by the Agronomy Department, Purdue University.
• Iowa State University
  • Agronomy Department
  • Ag Marketing Resource Center
  • Crop Adviser Institute
  • Iowa State University Extension
  • Iowa State Weed Science
  • Iowa Soil and Land Use
  • Iowa Manure Management Action Group - The goal of IMMAG is to identify and share manure management information and educational programs.
  • Integrated Pest Management at Iowa State University
  • ISU Research and Demonstration Farms Annual Progress Reports - Annual progress reports for the Iowa State University farms.
  • ISU Weed Science Online - Reference Desk - Online information and resources for weed science-related questions.
  • Plant Sciences Institute (ISU)
  • Iowa Environmental Mesonet
  • Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
  • The Seed Science Center
  • Plant Disease Clinic (ISU)
  • Nitrogen and Phosphorus Knowledge - Research and information on nitrogen and phosphorous management.
• State of Iowa
  • Iowa Corn - Provides links to the Iowa Corn Promotion Board and the Iowa Corn Growers Association.
  • Iowa Conservation Partners - NRSC Iowa State site. Provides information about natural resources, services available from your local conservation districts, the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and from the Division of Soil Conservation.
  • Iowa Crop Improvement Association
  • Iowa Farmer Today OnLine - the largest weekly farm publication in Iowa, with 70,000 recipients.
  • Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship
  • Iowa Soybeans - Homepage for the Iowa Soybean Association and the Iowa Soybean Promotion Board. Provides links to organization news, soyfoods and school education.

Associations & Societies

• American Corn Growers Association
• American Forage and Grassland Council - Promotes the profitable production and sustainable utilization of quality forage and grasslands.
• American Seed Trade Association - a trade organization involved in seed production and distribution, plant breeding, and related industries in North America.
• American Society for Horticultural Science
• American Society of Agronomy
• Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops (AAIC) - Contains organizational, membership, and meetings information, as well as links to other sites pertaining to industrial crops.
• Association of Official Seed Certifying Agencies - Current member agencies [Argentina (1), Australia (3), Canada (2), Chile (1), New Zealand (1), and the United States (42)] are the official seed certifying agencies in their respective countries.
• Canadian Society of Agronomy
• Canadian Society of Soil Science
• Crop Science Society of America
• European Weed Research Society
• International Weed Science Society
• International Seed Testing Association - develops, adopts and publishes standard procedures for sampling and testing seeds and promotes uniform application of these procedures for evaluation of seeds moving in international trade; has member laboratories in over 70 countries world wide. Provides the Information Platform for GM Seeds
• Iowa Crop Improvement Association - the official seed certifying agency for the State of Iowa. Includes Iowa crop performance tests and the Iowa Seed Directory.
• National Alfalfa Alliance
• National Association of Wheat Growers
• National Corn Growers Association (NCGA)
• National Forage Testing Association (NFTA)
• National Grain and Feed Association
• Soil Science Society of American
• Soygrowers - Web site prepared by the American Soybean Association which covers farm and trade policy, news, membership, exports, leadership and corporate partners.
• Weed Science Society of America

Conservation

• Natural Resources Conservation Service - Home page for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service; contains information about the Service as well as its programs.
• Polluted Runoff (Nonpoint Source Pollution) - EPA site. Links to publications & information resources, educational materials, funding opportunities, and recent legislation related to non-point source pollution of water.

Crop Production

• Certified Crop Adviser (CCA) program - developed by the American Society of Agronomy.
• CICP - Home page of the Consortium, whose principal purpose is to assist developing nations reduce food crop losses caused by pests while also safe-guarding the environment.
• CropBiotech.Net - "The principal goal is to share knowledge on all aspects of crop biotechnology for all stakeholders, including consumers, farmers, policy makers, scientists, and the media in developing countries."
• Crops Resources on the Internet
• GrainGenes: Links - GrainGenes is a compilation of molecular and phenotypic information on wheat, barley, oats, rye and sugarcane. This site has links to university websites, agricultural research centers, agronomy-related websites, articles, companies and organizations, government and websites for geneticists, agronomists and pathologists.
• ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service - ILDIS is an international project which aims to document and catalogue the world's legume species diversity in a readily accessible form. Research groups in many countries are participating on a co-operative basis to pool information in the ILDIS World Database of Legumes, which is used to provide a worldwide information service through publications, electronic access and enquiry services.
• KBS LTER Site: Long-Term Ecological Research in Row-Crop Agriculture
• NewCROP: The New Crop Resource Online Program - NewCROP provides windows to new and specialty crop profiles.
• Official United States Standards (for Grain) - Gives guidelines and standards for grading of grains in the United States.
• Palmer Drought Severity & Crop Moisture Indices - A climatological tool for evaluating the scope, severity, and frequency of prolonged periods of abnormally dry or wet weather.
• Pesticide Action Network - Pesticide Action Network (PAN) is a network of over 600 participating nongovernmental organizations, institutions and individuals in over 60 countries working to replace the use of hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound alternatives. Its projects and campaigns are coordinated by five autonomous Regional Centers.
• Pesticide Action Network Pesticides Database - Provides current toxicity and regulatory information for pesticides.
• Pesticide Education Resources - Presents information about pesticides and applicator training, as well as links to additional resources.
• Production Estimates & Crop Assessment Division
• Small Grains: the Internet Source for Small Grain Growers -Provides timely information to wheat farmers in the Minnesota region. Includes full text of selected issues of Wheat yearbook., Prairie grains, Wheat news, Annual wheat newsletter, and Annual barley newsletter.
• Transgenic Crops: An Introduction and Resource Guide - Provides balanced information and links to other resources on the technology and issues surrounding transgenic crops.
• Winter Cereal Production -Information on winter cereal production on the Western Canadian prairies.

Crop Pests and Diseases

• Agronomic Crop Disease Fact Sheet Index
• ARS Insect/Weed and Biocontrol Laboratories
• ARS Pesticide Properties Database - This database has been developed to provide quality modelers and managers with a list of pesticide qualities that are most important for predicting the potential of pesticides moving into ground and surface waters under a range of weather and soil conditions. Information focuses on 16 of the most important properties that affect pesticides transport and degradation characteristics.
• Biological Control: A Guide to Natural Enemies in North America - A Cornell university site
• Cereal Disease Laboratory
• Crop Diseases in Corn, Soybean, and Wheat - Provides links to indexes of corn, soybean and wheat. A site search engine is included.
• Integrated Pest Management Newsletter - Iowa State University Entomology Department
• Plant Disease Clinic (Iowa State University)
• Texas Plant Disease Handbook
• United States Department of Agriculture OPMP, Office of Pest Management Policy, PIAP, Pesticide Impact Assessment Program -The Pesticide Impact Assessment Program (PIAP) is a multi-agency program jointly administered by the USDA's Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES) and the state land-grant universities. The USDA's Office of Pest Management Policy (OPMP) oversees administration of the program.
• USDA Regional Pest Management Centers - Provides links to rapid and neutral disse ination of pest management information to growers, extension, consultants, regulatory personnel, and the public at large. Information is restricted to that provided by the U.S. land-grant university system and the U.S. government.
• USDA Nematology Lab Home Page - Home page of the Laboratory. It's mission of the Nematology Laboratory is to develop environmentally safe control strategies for plant-parasitic nematodes and methods for utilizing nematodes as control agents of insect pests, thereby promoting agricultural sustainability, assuring food safety, improving water quality, and providing linkage to integrated pest management systems.

Glossaries

• Agriculture: A Glossary of Terms, Programs, and Laws
• Agricultural Thesaurus
• Glossary of Soil Science Terms - The SSSA has published definitions or glossaries of soil science terms since 1956. These glossaries were developed by various terminology committees of SSSA. New terms were carried as appendices in the five revised editions of the Glossary published from 1971 through 1979, plus a supplement in October 1982. The 1984 revision incorporated a policy that all acceptable terms appear in a single alphabetical list. Appendices would include obsolete terms, tabular information, proposed new terms or guidelines, etc. This revision of the Glossary does not have a separate list of obsolete terms. None of the terms in the Glossary of Soil Science Terms is considered official by the SSSA. They are published in an effort to provide a foundation for common understanding in communications covering soil science.

Manuals & Guide books

• Alternative Field Crops Manual - A University of Wisconsin site. Provides detailed information on the production of a number of agronomic crops adapted to the upper Midwest.
• Compendium of On-Line Soil Survey Information - Compiled by D G Rossiter, International Institute for Geo-information Science & Earth Observation, The Netherlands. Compiler attempted to bring together "all the on-line information on soil survey activities, institutions, datasets, research, and teaching materials world-wide." Links to worldwide institutes that carry out soil surveys.
• Compendium of Pesticide Common Names - This searchable website contains the common names to over 1000 pesticides.
• Corn Growers' Guidebook - Created by the Agronomy Department, Purdue University. This site is devoted to provide "timely and timeless information that will assist you to grow corn more profitably."
• Crop Protection Compendium - Includes information (text, maps and illustrations) on approximately 1000 pests, natural enemies, crops and countries focusing on South-East Asia and the Pacific, but including much information of global significance.
• National Handbook of Conservation Practices - provides links to more than 150 conservation practice standards for farming and ranching, developed by the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service (formerly U.S. Soil Conservation Service). All standards are available in both PDF and Word.
• Texas Plant Disease Handbook - Created by the Texas A&M University Agricultural Extension Service.
• Weed Identification Guide - Virginia Tech site. Intended to aide in the identification of common weeds and weed seedlings found throughout Virginia and the Southeastern U. .

Organic farming

• African Agricultural Research - Agricultural research for food security, environmental sustainability and economic development in Africa.
• Agronomic Links - Provides links to useful and informative agronomic sites.
• Agronomic Links Around the Globe - Gateway to websites organized under international, national, state, and miscellaneous headings. ("US National" category is subarranged by topic.) Links are annotated.
• Australian Centre for Precision Agriculture
• BeanRef - A collection of links and references from literature to different aspects of research on beans (Phaseolus and Vigna)
• CABI Bioscience
• Cereal Science Resource Links
• CyberFarm! - Links are provided to many sites relating to sustainable agriculture.
• EXTOXNET : the EXtension TOXicology NETwork - Provides a variety of information about pesticides.
• Farmland Information Library - Extensive collection of resources on agriculture as well as environmental, economic, and policy issues in agriculture. Includes research reports, news articles, pamphlets, statutes, and databases, along with links to related organizations and web sites. Includes search engine.
• Food and Fertilizer Technology Center
• Forage Information System - Provides links to worldwide forage-related information. Included are lists of conferences, jobs, and a link to the National Forage Curriculum Project and undergraduate and graduate level forage classes in the U.S. and around the world.
• Interactive European Network for Industrial Crops and their Applications (IENICA)
• MEL, The Michigan Electronic Library: Science & the Environment: Crop and Soil Resources - Collection of links to agriculture and agronomy Web sites.
• National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation (NCGRP) Formerly called the National Seed Storage Laboratory (NSSL). NCGRP is the “repository for animal genetic resources in the form of semen and plant genetic resources in the form of graftable buds or in vitro plantlets.”
• National Organic Program - USDA program; develops and implements national standards that govern the marketing of agricultural products as organically produced.
• NAWQA Pesticide National Synthesis Project - National assessment of pesticides in the streams, rivers, and ground water of the United States.
• Precision Agriculture Related Websites - The National Environmentally Sound Production Agriculture Laboratory provides sites which have content related to precision agriculture. The sites cover research centres, publications and journals, discussion groups, and resources on geographic information systems, variable rate technology, computer information, remote sensing information, yield mapping information, and soil mapping.
• SeedQuest: Information Services for Seed Professionals - Provides news and information, a global directory of the seed industry (associations, companies, organizations, people), seed suppliers, brokers, dealers, industry suppliers of software, financial services, legal services and more.
• Small Farm Center - The Small Farm Center provides research results, publications, and educational programs on small farm topics.
• System-Wide Information Network for Genetic Resources: Singer, the CGIAR System-Wide Information Network for Genetic Resources - The genetic resources information exchange network of the International Agricultural Research Centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
• UK CropNet : the UK Crop Plant Bioinformatics Network - Site features a collection of databases and software packages related to gene mapping and genome research in crop plants. Includes search engine.
• World Food Prize
• World List of Seed Sources
• World Wide Web Virtual Library. Soils and Substrates - A subdirectory of the WWW virtual library, a service of the Finnish Forest Research Institute (METLA). Has links to resources on facts and fasics, world soils data, other soil related resources, books and journals, laboratories and organizations, and assorted WWW sites.

Plant Genetic Information

• International Plant Genetic Resources Institute - Home site of the IPGRI, which works to strengthen the conservation and use of plant genetic resources, in partnership with other organizations, undertaking research, training and the provision of scientific and technical advice and information.
• National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) - The National Plant Germplasm System is a cooperative effort by state, federal, and private organizations to preserve the genetic diversity of plants. This is done by acquiring, preserving, evaluating, documenting, and distributing crop germplasm resources. This site allows searching of the GRIN system and provides links to germplasm repositories, as well as related web sites.
• Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter
• Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture - Contains an overview and documents of FAO's work promoting conservation of plant genetic resources worldwide, as well as a comprehensive list of links to relevant sites.
• Plant Introduction Station - One of four regional centers, the station maintains seed (germplasm) collections of 30,000 individual lines.
• Plant Management Network - Offers an extensive searchable database comprised of thousands of web-based resource information from journals, fact sheets, newsletters, training resources, etc. supplied by the network's partner universities, companies, and associations.
• Plant Research International - Plant Research International is a research institute which integrates knowledge in the fields of genetics and reproduction, crop protection, crop ecology and agricultural systems.
• PLANTS Database - Focuses on the vascular and nonvascular plants of the United States and its territories. The PLANTS database includes checklists, distributional data, crop information, plants symbols, plant growth data, references and other plant information.

Plant Information and Images

• ARS Image Gall ry -- The image gallery is provided as a complimentary source of high quality digital photographs available from the USDA Agricultural Research Service Information staff. Includes images of crops, plants, animals, insects, fruits/vegetables, and field/lab research.
• CalPhotos: Plants -- University of California, Berkeley. Provides accesses to more than 45,000 images of plants. A variety of organizations and individuals have contributed photographs to CalPhotos.
• International Code of Botanical Nomenclature -- St. Louis Code adopted by the Sixteenth International Botanical Congress St Louis, Missouri, July-August 1999.
• The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants. Its goal is to eliminate the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names.
• Landscape Plants: Images, Identification, and Information -- Oregon State University Horticulture Department site. This site contains images and information on over 900 landscape plants (mostly woody listed in alphabetical order by genus.
• Plant Image Gallery (Nobel Foundation)
• PlantFacts -- Searchable database of university and government publications about plants, and related university programs.
• PLANTS Database (USDA)
• Plants of Horticulture -- A searchable database of 3,878 high quality images and horticultural descriptions for hundreds of unique species and cultivars created by the Ohio State University.
• USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection

Soil

• Global Soil Moisture Data Bank
• Glossary of Soil Science terms (2001 revision) Includes more than 1800 terms. Created by the Soil Science Society of America.
• International Soil Reference and Information Centre = Internationales Bodenreferenz und Informations-Zentrum - Centre for documentation, research, and training about the world's soils, with emphasis on the resources of developing countries.
• Keys to Soil Taxonomy - Provides the taxonomic keys necessary for the classification of soils according to Soil Taxonomy in a form that can be used easily in the field, and it also acquaints users of Soil taxonomy with recent changes in the classification system. This publication includes all revisions of the keys that have so far been approved, replacing the original keys in Soil Taxonomy: A Basic System of Soil Classification for Making and Interpreting Soil Surveys (1975), the work on which this abridged version, first published in 1983, is based.
• Land, Soil and Water Internet Resources -A selection of key sources of interest to researchers in the field of land, soil and water use.
• National Soil Tilth Laboratory - Home page of the Laboratory, whose mission is to generate and integrate knowledge for the development and evaluation of management practices that enhance surface and ground water quality while ensuring the long term enhancement and conservation of the nation's soil and water resources. Included at this site is a personnel directory, NSTL publications, NSTL software and links to USDA.
• Nitrogen and Phosphorus Knowledge - Research and information on nitrogen and phosphorous management.
• NSCSS Soil Science Sources Page - Provides links to soil science information that is available from other professional sources, such as organizations, educational institutions, agencies and internet projects.
• Soil and Water Conservation Society - Home page of the Society. Its mission statement declares that it fosters the science and the art of soil, water, and related natural resource management to achieve sustainability.
• Soil Microbiology Terms
• Soil Quality Institute - This Institute focuses on soil quality resource concerns that have national and multi-state applicability.
• Soil Science Education Home Page
• Soil Science Society of America - Home page of the Society, whose mission is to advance the discipline and practice of soil science by acquiring and disseminating information about soils in relation to crop production, environmental quality, ecosystem sustainability, bioremediation, waste management and recycling, and wise land use.
• Soil Taxonomy, a Basic System of Soil Classification for Making and Interpreting Soil Surveys - Covers the basics of soil classification through the world distribution of orders and suborders. Includes links to maps that were originally issued separately.
• Soils (NRCS) - Soils is part of the National Cooperative Soil Survey, an effort of Federal and State agencies, universities, and professional societies to deliver scientifically based soil information.
• Soilweb: Interesting Soil Web Sites - Collection of informative soil web pages.
• State of the Land -This site provides data on land use and change, soil erosion and soil quality, water quality, wetlands, and other issues regarding the conservation and use of natural resources on non-Federal land in the United States.
• Twelve Soil Orders: Soil Taxonomy
• U.S. Soil Moisture Monitoring
• World Soil Resources - Provides support to the Natural Resources Conservation Service's international outreach activities. This site promotes the free exchange of natural resource data for the continued evolution of soils knowledge for sustainable uses and management. Included is a WSR staff directory, online soil education series global outreach, technical reference, professional organizations, and natural resources/agricultural links.

Water resources

• ARS Water Database
• ISU Agronomy Extension Water Quality Program
• U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory

Weather & Climatology

• Drought and Weather - a USDA site. Provides links to a range of weather monitoring services and related tools, Web sites and full text reports.
• Drought Monitor - Offers reports of current drought conditions and forecasts for the United States, as well as the data behind the reports. Archived reports dating back to May 1999 are also available. Features include summary maps and link to related sites.
• Major World Crop Areas and Climatic Profiles (pdf file) - Maps and charts showing climate features and major crop-growing areas for various countries around the world.
• National Drought Mitigation Center - The Center helps people and institutions develop and implement measures to reduce societal vulnerability to drought by stressing preparation and risk management.
• NOAA's Drought Information Center - NOAA's drought information center is a roundup of the various NOAA Web sites and information on drought and climate conditions.
• NRCS National Water and Climate Center
• Palmer Drought Severity & Crop Moisture Indices - A climatological tool for evaluating the scope, severity, and frequency of prolonged periods of abnormally dry or wet weather.

Weeds

• New Jersey Agricultural Weed Gallery - A collection of photos and descriptions of agricultural weeds found in New Jersey.
• Weed Related WWW's & Other Weed Resources - Provides sites to university, state, federal government, and international weed programs, agricultural chemical companies, organizations, specific weeds, and weeds in specific crops.
• Weed Science Society of America - This Society promotes the development of weed science and technology.

Page last revised on May 22, 2007
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