Agricultural Sciences: U.S. Web Resources

Promotes agriculture production, preserves the Nation's natural resources through conservation and sustainable management, and works to improve rural economy and quality of life.

A listing, by state, of various state agencies focused on Agriculture and Food Resources.

Protect human health and the environment by reducing your environmental footprint.

Committed to providing timely, accurate, and useful statistics in service to U.S. agriculture.

Complete count of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them.

Each factsheet presents important patterns of use, life cycle impact, and sustainable solutions. From the University of Michigan Center for Sustainable Systems.

Discover your biggest areas of resource consumption and learn what you can do to tread more lightly on the Earth.

Discover how much water you use.

Provides standardized information about all types of plants to promote U.S. land conservation.

Information rich site dedicated to crop plants, including unconventional food sources in times of famine. No longer maintained but a great historical resource.

Anticipates trends and emerging issues in agriculture, food, the environment, and rural America and to conduct high-quality, objective economic research to inform and enhance public and private decision making.

A collection of landmark agricultural texts from the early nineteenth to the middle/late twentieth century.

Organized by type of collection, these historical documents are related to agriculture and food science. Collections include: Historical Dietary Guidance Digital, Pomological Watercolor, Animal Welfare Act History, Historical Gypsy Moth Publications, World's Poultry Science Association, Plant Inventory (USDA), Fruit and Vegetable Market News, USDA Publications, Rural Development Publications, Organic Roots, Legislative Histories, NAL Information Centers, and Reports of Bean Improvement Cooperative and National Dry Bean Council Research Conference.

From the University of Texas at Tyler Southwest Center for Agricultural Health, Injury Prevention, and Education, videos and PDFs of how to stay safe in agriculture. Examples include safety in the heat, with animals/insects, and more!

Committed to providing high value information and technical assistance to farmers, ranchers, Extension agents, educators and others involved in sustainable agriculture.

Learn and educate others about integrated farming systems that can contribute to environmental, economic, social, and inter-generational sustainability.

Nurture safe, healthy, just, and ecologically sustainable farms, food systems, and communities by providing education, alliance building, and advocacy.

An educational initiative designed to open a meaningful conversation about food, health, and sustainability.

This "free market environmentalism" group, with accompanying online magazine, will be of interest to wildlife management students as well as those interested in federal use of lands.

To advance innovations that improve profitability, stewardship, and quality of life in agriculture.

Revitalizes sustainable urban-edge agriculture, fosters healthy local and regional food systems, and connects diverse urban communities with the people and places that grow their food.

Promoting the teaching and learning of environmentally sound, economically viable, socially responsible, non-exploitative, and humane systems.

Formerly AgResearch Magazine, this free publication from the USDA includes a subscription feature and archives from 1995 to present.