Research Guides:
Agriculture (General) Information
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| Research Short Cuts & People to Help You | CSU Cooperative Extension Library Resources |
| Colorado & CSU Agriculture Resources | CSU College of Agricultural Sciences |
| Sources for Agricultural Statistics | |
| Directories for Agricultural Information, Associations, & Universities with Agriculture Programs | Statistical Sources (all subjects) |
| Selected Full-text Online Resources & Web Searching Tips | Research Guides Index to Webpages (all subjects) |
- CSU Library Research Tips - A general guide for library research
- Five Steps to Better Research-outline and tutorial
- Databases/Indexes for magazine or journal articles about agriculture. Go to this page, then select agriculture under subject
- National Agricultural Library
- USDA National Agriculture Library
- Current Research Information System (CRIS) USDA
- Sage-CSU Catalog (great for books, CSU theses, dissertations, and government documents)
- Prospector-Colorado catalog includes holdings for CU, UNC, Denver Public, and other libraries
- FindIt (SFX)-CSU Libraries computer linking service to full-text availability of journal articles
- Citation Linker-helps you locate full-text or the availability of journal articles if you have a citation
- Interlibrary Loan and Webview-order or view
- Subject Librarian: Allison Cowgill, Assistant Professor
Phone: (970) 491-1876- Information Desk
- Ask a Librarian
- Schedule a library visit for your class
Colorado, United States, & Colorado State University Agriculture Resources
- Colorado State University College of Agricultural Sciences
- Colorado State Agriculture News
- Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station
- Colorado Department of Agriculture
- Colorado State University Cooperative Extension
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Food and Agriculture Organization
- Colorado State University Morgan Library
- CSU Cooperative Extension Library Resources
- Plant Talk Colorado (from CSU Cooperative Extension)
- Access to Extension & Experiment Station Publications Nationwide
- Free Agriculture Databases on the Web
- National Center for Agricultural Law
- Core Historial Literature of Agriculture from Cornell University
- Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution, and Diversity Studies to 1950 (includes topics of interest to agriculture)
- 2002 Census of Agriculture USDA access to Preliminary Reports. Some Colorado reports available
- 1997 Census of Agriculture USDA access to the recent Census of Agriculture with geographic and subject data. Many pages are in PDF form and need Adobe Acrobat.
- 1997 Census of Agriculture Highlights with easy-to-use click map, state tables, etc.
- USDA Economics and Statistics System Search all of USDA for reports and data sets
- NRCS Natural Resources Conservation Service Link to National Datasets for Natural Resource Analysis
- Economic Research Service Reports, publications and data sets on agriculture, food, the environment, and rural development
- Colorado Agricultural Statistics Service Provides breakdown of general agricultural statistics for the state of Colorado. Also provides a breakdown of commodity production by county.
- Colorado Department of Agriculture The Resource Analysis Section produces special reports targeting key issues and trends affecting Colorado Agriculture including historical agriculture land trends, farm land conversion statistics, and other great reports.
- Colorado Agricultural Land Trends 1959-1997 Data from the Colorado Department of Agriculture
Directories for Agricultural Information, Associations, & University Agriculture Programs
- AgNIC -- National Agricultural Library site
- Agriculture WEBliography -- LSU Libraries
- WWW Virtual Library: Agriculture
- @griculture online
- eHarvest.com: Agriculture Starts Here
- AgriGator-Agriculture Information on the Web via the University of Florida
- American Farm Bureau
- Institute for Agriculture &Trade Policy
- Institute of International Agriculture
- NASDA The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture
- Sustainable Agriculture
- United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN)
- American Farmland Trust
- Agricultural Colleges and Universities -- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Universities with Agriculture Colleges and Departments with a web presence.
- Colleges and Universities - US Agriculture Net Links-- from About.com
Selected Full-text Resources & Web Searching Tips
- USDA Food and Agricultural Policy Report 2001-- USDA taking stock for the new century report
- Public Attitudes about Agriculture in Colorado -- (PDF) a study done by the Colorado Department of Agriculture and AgInsights 2001
- United States Farm Bills (from the National Center for Agricultural Law)
- Agriculture Policy & Farm Bill Briefing Book from the Congressional Research Service
- Agriculture Fact Book 1998 -- USDA
- print copy available in the library A1. 38/2: DOCS REF
- Colleges of Agriculture at the Land Grant Universities: A Profile (1995) -- National Academy Press
- available to Colorado State University students, staff and faculty via netLibrary
- print copy available in the library NA 2.2/2:C 68 DOC
- Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station -- Technical Bulletins, Technical Reports, etc.
- note: many of these are available in print in the library under various call numbers
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Allison Level originally created the content of this page, but as of June 2007 it is no longer being updated.