Home: AGRICULTURE

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Literature Guides
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Handbooks, including NC Agricultural Chemicals Manual

Electronic Databases and Print Indexes

Statistics and Data
International
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Websites
Internet Gateways and General Guides
Government Agencies
Cooperative Extension
Other Organizations
Agricultural Markets and Analysis
Full Text Resources

Agricultural Experiment Station and Extension Publications (under construction)

Agriculture: Websites

Internet Gateways and General Guides

• Agricultural Resources on the Internet (http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Steenbock/subjectguide/agric.htm)
  
• AgriGator*: Worldwide Agricultural Site Index (http://AgriGator.ifas.ufl.edu/ag.htm)
  
• Not Just Cows: Guide to Agriculture and Agricultural Resources on the Internet and the World Wide Web (http://www.morrisville.edu/~drewwe/njc/)
  
• The World Wide Web Virtual Library--Agriculture (http://cipm.ncsu.edu/agVL/)
  

Government Agencies

• USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (http://www.ams.usda.gov/).
  As one of its functions, this service "includes six commodity programs--Cotton, Dairy, Fruit and Vegetable, Livestock and Seed, Poultry, and Tobacco. The programs employ specialists who provide standardization, grading and market news services for those commodities."
  
• USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (http://www.aphis.usda.gov/)
  
• USDA's Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) (http://www.csrees.usda.gov)
  
• USDA's Current Research Information System (CRIS) Web site (http://cris.csrees.usda.gov/)
  CRIS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's "documentation and reporting system for ongoing agricultural, food and nutrition, and forestry research."
  
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration (http://www.fda.gov/)

Cooperative Extension

• NC Cooperative Extension (http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/).
  Includes a link to the list of NCCES County Extension Centers (http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/counties/).
  
• State and National Partners (http://www.csrees.usda.gov/qlinks/partners/state_partners.html)
  A "directory of land-grant universities which are state partners of the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service."

Other Organizations

• AgNIC (Agriculture Network Information Center) (http://www.agnic.org/)
  
  • See Ask a Question for links to AgNIC Centers of Excellence that support specific subject areas.
    
  • NC State AgNIC. Systematic Entomology: A Guide to Online Insect Systematic Resources (http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/agnic/sys_entomology/)
    
• Agribusiness Council (http://www.agribusinesscouncil.org/)
• Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank (FARAD) (http://www.farad.org/)
  
• United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) (http://usain.org)

Agricultural Markets and Analysis

• AgriBiz Markets and Analysis (http://www.agribiz.com/markets.html)
  AgriBiz is "a free information resource for the global agricultural community." This section includes links to commodity quotes (crops and livestock), market news and analysis, and more.

Full Text Resources

• AgZines: a Harvest of Free Agricultural Journals (http://usain.org/agzines.html)
  Produced by the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN), a "compilation of agricultural journals that are available free on the web. Formerly known as Tomato Juice, this list collects web sites" that are related to the field of agriculture and related sciences
  
• Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) (http://chla.library.cornell.edu/)
  A "core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century." Full-text.
  
• E-Answers (http://e-answers.adec.edu)
  A searchable Web site that provides access to full text documents on a wide range of Extension or Outreach-oriented subjects. The work is by Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station professionals at several U.S. land-grant universities.

Librarian Contact Information

• Carol Vreeland, Associate Director, Veterinary Medicine Library
• 513-6823
• carol_vreeland@ncsu.edu
• http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/vreeland/