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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 [1]: Articles about sustainable dairy/livestock production.
  • Babcock Institute for International Dairy Research and Development [2]: 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 [3]: 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 [4]: Full-text publications on a variety of dairy subjects.
  • Plants Poisonous to Livestock [5]: 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 [6]: Full-text publications covering sustainable production of hogs, sheep and goats.
  • Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Publications on Sheep, Goats and Swine [7]
  • Profitable Pork: Alternative Strategies for Pork Producers [8]: 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 [9]: Contains articles on sustainable poultry production.
  • Diseases and Pests of Poultry [10]: 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 [11]: Full-text publications on poultry production.
  • Profitable Poultry: Raising Birds on Pasture [9]: From SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education) a full-text guide to raising chickens and turkeys using pens, movable fencing and pastures.
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Business and Marketing

  • Agricultural Marketing Resource Center [12]: 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 [13]: 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 [14]: 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 [15]: 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 [16]: Includes publications on agribusiness, dairy management, accounting, etc
  • Sustainable Agriculture and Research Education Economics and Marketing [17]: Links to several full-text handbooks for farmers and ranchers.
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General Resources

  • ATTRA: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service [18]: This site contains many online publications covering various topics related to organic and sustainable agriculture.
  • Cornell University Small Farms [19]: Provides general information for small farms and contains many helpful websites and full-text references in its resources section.
  • National Agricultural Library [20]: 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 [21]: Publications from Penn State on agricultural topics ranging from manuals to factsheets, most are available for free online.
  • Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) [22]: SARE has many publications available online in PDF format.
  • Teaching Organic Farming and Gardening [23]: A publication from the UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, it covers topics ranging from soil fertility to cover crops.
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Plants and Crops

Fruits and Vegetables

Fruits

  • ATTRA: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service [24]: Includes ATTRA publications about growing fruits. Focuses on organic and sustainable farming methods.
  • Cornell Fruit Resources [25]: 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 [26]: 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 [27]
  • Penn State College of Agricultural Science Publications on Fruits [28]: Includes information on tree fruit production and grape growing.

Vegetables

  • ATTRA: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service [24]: Includes ATTRA publications on growing vegetables. Focuses on organic and sustainable farming methods.
  • Cornell Vegetable MD Online [29]: From the Cornell University Department of Plant Pathology, provides fact sheets on plants diseases and diagnostic keys with color photos.
  • Cornell Vegetable Resources [30]: 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 [31]
  • Penn State College of Agricultural Science Publications on Vegetables [32]: Includes information on growing asparagus, curcubits, leafy vegetables,etc.

Field Crops

  • Alternative Field Crops Manual [33]: From the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension Service, this manual provides information on over 40 alternative crops.
  • ATTRA: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service [34]: 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 [35]: 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 [36]: 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 [37]
  • Penn State Agronomy Guide 2007-2008 [38]: Covers crop and soil management and pest management for a variety of field crops.
  • Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Publications on Field Crops [39]: PDF documents covering a wide variety of crops.

Pasture

  • ATTRA: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service [40]: Publications on grass farming.
  • Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Publications on Forage, Pasture and Silage [41]

Soils

  • ATTRA: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service [42]: Contains publications on soils and compost.
  • Building Soils for Better Crops [43]: Publication available online from the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program.
  • Cornell Nutrient Analysis Laboratory [44]: Provides New York Soil Test Summaries on soil fertility.
  • Cornell Soil Health Assessment Manual [45]: Provides overview of soil health, soil health testing and management strategies for improving soil health.
  • Cornell Waste Management Institute [46]: Contains information on composting and soil quality.
  • Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Publications on Soils and Soil Management [47]
  • Soil Quality Publications [48]: From the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, provides full-text publications on a variety of topics related to soil quality.
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Resources compiled by Hinkle Memorial Library [49].


  • Source URL (retrieved on 05/23/2013 - 4:24pm): http://www.alfredstate.edu/cosa/online-resources

    Links:
    [1] http://www.attra.org/livestock.html#Beef
    [2] http://babcock.cals.wisc.edu/publications/publications.lasso
    [3] http://cdp.wisc.edu/
    [4] http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/PubSubject.asp?varSubject=Dairy
    [5] http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/index.html
    [6] http://www.attra.org/livestock.html#Hogs
    [7] http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/PubSubject.asp?varSubject=Sheep,%20Goats,%20and%20Swine
    [8] http://www.sare.org/publications/hogs.htm
    [9] http://attra.ncat.org/livestock.html#Poultry
    [10] http://www.msstate.edu/dept/poultry/extdis.htm
    [11] http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/PubSubject.asp?varSubject=Poultry
    [12] http://www.agmrc.org/
    [13] http://attra.ncat.org/marketing.html
    [14] http://www.smallfarms.cornell.edu/pages/resources/businessmanage/index.cfm
    [15] http://www.smallfarms.cornell.edu/pages/resources/marketing/index.cfm
    [16] http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/PubSubject.asp?varSubject=Farm%20Management
    [17] http://www.sare.org/coreinfo/marketing.htm
    [18] http://attra.ncat.org/
    [19] http://www.smallfarms.cornell.edu/index.cfm
    [20] http://www.nal.usda.gov/
    [21] http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/Publications.asp
    [22] http://www.sare.org/
    [23] http://casfs.ucsc.edu/education/instruction/tofg/contents.html
    [24] http://attra.ncat.org/organic.html
    [25] http://www.hort.cornell.edu/extension/commercial/fruit/index.html
    [26] http://www.nyshs.org/fq.php
    [27] http://nysipm.cornell.edu/fruits/default.asp
    [28] http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/PubSubject.asp?varSubject=Fruits
    [29] http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/
    [30] http://www.vegetables.cornell.edu/
    [31] http://nysipm.cornell.edu/vegetables/default.asp
    [32] http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/PubSubject.asp?varSubject=Vegetables
    [33] http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/afcm/index.html
    [34] http://attra.ncat.org/field.html
    [35] http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/biocontrol/
    [36] http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/4041
    [37] http://nysipm.cornell.edu/fieldcrops/default.asp
    [38] http://agguide.agronomy.psu.edu/
    [39] http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/PubSubject.asp?varSubject=Field%20Crops
    [40] http://attra.ncat.org/livestock.html#Grass
    [41] http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/PubSubject.asp?varSubject=Forage,%20Pasture,%20and%20Silage
    [42] http://attra.ncat.org/soils.html
    [43] http://www.sare.org/publications/soils.htm
    [44] http://cnal.cals.cornell.edu/publications/
    [45] http://www.hort.cornell.edu/soilhealth/extension/manual.htm
    [46] http://cwmi.css.cornell.edu/about.htm
    [47] http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/PubSubject.asp?varSubject=Soils%20and%20Soil%20Management
    [48] http://soils.usda.gov/sqi/publications/publications.html
    [49] http://www.alfredstate.edu/node/1286