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October 05, 2005Find a Farmers Market in Your Area
Fall's here, and you know what that means. FARMERS MARKETS! Now's the time to drive over to the 'market and load up on wonderful fresh produce. The USDA has a map of Farmers Markets in the US available at http://www.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets/map.htm...
September 14, 2004A Personal Web Site Full of Agricultural Data
I rarely cover personal sites that are explicitly defined as personal sites, but in the case of Paul ten Hove I'll make an exception. Paul ten Hove worked for Euroconsult for 30 years, eventually becoming a agronomist who specialized in...
Continue reading "A Personal Web Site Full of Agricultural Data" » September 08, 2004Agricultural Research Service Launches Plant Nutrient Database (Sorta)
The Agricultural Research Service has launched a plant nutrient database containing information on phytonutrients in 206 different foods. It's available at http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/PA/PA.html . I put the sorta in the headline because it's not really a database - you can't do...
Continue reading "Agricultural Research Service Launches Plant Nutrient Database (Sorta)" » September 02, 2004Department of Agriculture Has Quick Stats Available
Looking for information on agriculture in the US? Quick Stats will help you. The 2002 Census of Agriculture page has a feature that'll let you query the data in several different ways. The page is at http://www.nass.usda.gov/census/ . Choose Quick...
Continue reading "Department of Agriculture Has Quick Stats Available" » May 04, 2004USDA Makes A Database of Agriculture Exporters Available
The US Department of Agriculture has launched a free online database of over 3,800 US-based agriculture exporters. The database is available at http://www.fas.usda.gov/agexport/exporter.html ; choose the "Online Searchable Database" link on the left. This database is extremely searchable. Choose product...
Continue reading "USDA Makes A Database of Agriculture Exporters Available" » August 11, 2003Rodale Starts New Farm Database
The Rodale Institute has started a new database of farms at http://www.newfarm.org/farmlocator/index.php. Currently the database is sparsely populated so the site is inviting farms to add themselves to the database (getting listed in the database is free.) Searching options include...
March 04, 2003Database of Corn Products
Sometimes I sit around and just wonder about all the different things that are made from corn. But I don't have to do that anymore as this database of corn products, at http://lepton.marz.com/ncga/comm_dev_center/index_PG.asp , lists over 600 products made...
August 27, 2002CCOF Launches New Organic Web SiteMarch 26, 2002U of C Launches Small Farm Online Resource Library
The University of California has launched the Small Farm Center Online Resource Library at http://www.sfc.ucdavis.edu/library . There are over 900 documents currently in the library but it's growing all the time. You can explore it in one of two ways:...
Continue reading "U of C Launches Small Farm Online Resource Library" » September 20, 2001Go Go Potatoes
Global Potato News http://www.potatonews.com/ has a huge amount of information in it, most of which you can access using the navigation on the left side of the screen. For the subject index, scroll down to Potato Directory and choose any...
March 27, 2001An Agricultural Search Engine
Web-Agri ( http://www.web-agri.com/ ) is a search engine for agriculture pages. It currently indexes over 300,000 pages. Searching is pretty standard (there is a help page available) but unfortunately sometimes the results are less than helpful. For example, a search...
January 01, 2001Food, Glorious Food ...
Whether you're a gourmet or a microwave jockey like me, it's not difficult to appreciate locally-grown food. Local Harvest ( "http://wwww.localharvest.org ) gives you a way to search for local farmers and farmer's markets by zip code. The front page...
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