Online Resources

• Animals and Livestock
  • Dairy Cattle and Milk
  • Goats, Sheep, and Swine
  • Poultry and Eggs
• Business and Marketing
• General Resources
• Plants and Crops
  • Fruits and Vegetables
  • Field Crops
  • Pasture
  • Soils

Animals and Livestock

Dairy Cattle and Milk

• ATTRA: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service: Marketing, Business and Risk Management: Articles about sustainable dairy/livestock production.
• Babcock Institute for International Dairy Research and Development: Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin, this site provides publications (many full-text) about nutrition/feeding, lactation/milk quality, reproduction, heifers/calf care, farm management, environment, and dairy worker training.
• Center for Dairy Profitability: From the University of Wisconsin, contains information on business management, human resource management, production systems and finance and marketing systems that enhance profitability.
• Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Publications on Dairy: Full-text publications on a variety of dairy subjects.
• Plants Poisonous to Livestock: From the Cornell University Department of Animal Science, contains a searchable database of plants and includes photos of plants and affected animals.

Goats, Sheep, and Swine

• ATTRA: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service: Hogs, Sheep and Goats: Full-text publications covering sustainable production of hogs, sheep and goats.
• Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Publications on Sheep, Goats and Swine
• Profitable Pork: Alternative Strategies for Pork Producers: From SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Education and Research), this publication includes information on netting greater profits to raising better-tasting pork in alternative hog systems.

Poultry and Eggs

• ATTRA: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service: Poultry: Contains articles on sustainable poultry production.
• Diseases and Pests of Poultry: From Mississippi State University Extension Service, provides links to articles about poultry disease diagnosis, disease identification and treatments for parasites.
• Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Publications on Poultry: Full-text publications on poultry production.
• Profitable Poultry: Raising Birds on Pasture: From SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education) a full-text guide to raising chickens and turkeys using pens, movable fencing and pastures.

Business and Marketing

• Agricultural Marketing Resource Center: From USDA Rural Development and Iowa State University, an electronic, national resource for producers interested in value-added agriculture. Provides information on commodities and products, market and industry trends, and business creation and operation.
• ATTRA: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service: Marketing, Business and Risk Management: Resources include publications about organic marketing and labeling, direct marketing options, value-added and processing, business planning and management, funding, risk management, cooperatives and other marketing topics.
• Cornell University Small Farms Program Resources on Business Management: Provides links to websites and full-text publications on topics including business management tools, community relations, creating a business plan, farm transitions, farmland protection, financing your farm business, managing labor, risk management, taxes, etc.
• Cornell University Small Farms Program Resources on Marketing: Provides links to websites and full-text articles on topics ranging from agritourism to value-added marketing and processing.
• Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Publications on Farm Management: Includes publications on agribusiness, dairy management, accounting, etc
• Sustainable Agriculture and Research Education Economics and Marketing: Links to several full-text handbooks for farmers and ranchers.

General Resources

• ATTRA: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service: This site contains many online publications covering various topics related to organic and sustainable agriculture.
• Cornell University Small Farms: Provides general information for small farms and contains many helpful websites and full-text references in its resources section.
• National Agricultural Library: Excellent gateway site from the United States Department of Agriculture to websites and publications on a variety of agricultural topics.
• Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Publications: Publications from Penn State on agricultural topics ranging from manuals to factsheets, most are available for free online.
• Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE): SARE has many publications available online in PDF format.
• Teaching Organic Farming and Gardening: A publication from the UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, it covers topics ranging from soil fertility to cover crops.

Plants and Crops

Fruits and Vegetables

Fruits

• ATTRA: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service: Includes ATTRA publications about growing fruits. Focuses on organic and sustainable farming methods.
• Cornell Fruit Resources: The Cornell University Department of Horticulture gateway linking to resources for the commercial production of specific fruits (tree and stone fruits, grapes, berries).
• New York Fruit Quarterly: A publication from the New York State Horticultural Society produced quarterly which contains a wide variety of articles on fruit production in New York State.
• New York State Integrated Pest Management for Fruits
• Penn State College of Agricultural Science Publications on Fruits: Includes information on tree fruit production and grape growing.

Vegetables

• ATTRA: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service: Includes ATTRA publications on growing vegetables. Focuses on organic and sustainable farming methods.
• Cornell Vegetable MD Online: From the Cornell University Department of Plant Pathology, provides fact sheets on plants diseases and diagnostic keys with color photos.
• Cornell Vegetable Resources: The Cornell Commercial Vegetable Production program is a cooperative effort between Extension educators and horticulturists, entomologists, pathologists, economists and engineers at both the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (NYSAES) in Geneva and academic departments at Cornell University.
• New York State Integrated Pest Management for Vegetables
• Penn State College of Agricultural Science Publications on Vegetables: Includes information on growing asparagus, curcubits, leafy vegetables,etc.

Field Crops

• Alternative Field Crops Manual: From the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension Service, this manual provides information on over 40 alternative crops.
• ATTRA: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service: Publications cover traditional and alternative crops and discuss soil and weed management options and tilling and planting methods.
• Biological Control: A Guide to Natural Enemies in North America: This guide from Cornell University provides photographs and descriptions of biological control agents of insect, disease and weed pests in North America. It is also a tutorial on the concept and practice of biological control and integrated pest management (IPM).
• Cornell Field Crops and Soils Handbook: A companion to the Cornell Guide for Integrated Field Crop Management, this handbook serves as a resource reference and contains expanded background information, research findings, and the reasoning behind the recommendations for climate, soil management, soil fertility, grain and forage crop production. This reference also includes a section on integrated pest management for weeds, insects, and diseases.
• New York Integrated Pest Management for Field Crops
• Penn State Agronomy Guide 2007-2008: Covers crop and soil management and pest management for a variety of field crops.
• Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Publications on Field Crops: PDF documents covering a wide variety of crops.

Pasture

• ATTRA: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service: Publications on grass farming.
• Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Publications on Forage, Pasture and Silage

Soils

• ATTRA: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service: Contains publications on soils and compost.
• Building Soils for Better Crops: Publication available online from the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program.
• Cornell Nutrient Analysis Laboratory: Provides New York Soil Test Summaries on soil fertility.
• Cornell Soil Health Assessment Manual: Provides overview of soil health, soil health testing and management strategies for improving soil health.
• Cornell Waste Management Institute: Contains information on composting and soil quality.
• Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Publications on Soils and Soil Management
• Soil Quality Publications: From the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, provides full-text publications on a variety of topics related to soil quality.

Resources compiled by Hinkle Memorial Library.