Crops, Weeds & Pesticides

Index

Student pages
Hot topics
Bibliographic resources
General agriculture sites
Crop and weeds sites
Horticulture
Weather
Production and Trade statistics
Agricultural chemicals
Library Reference Resources

Resources for NDSU Plant Science classes

• Plant Sciences 491: Crop Science
• Plant Sciences 491: Horticulture

Hot Topics: Genetically Modified Crops

• GM Crops News briefs, graphics, perspectives, and a collection of articles from the journal Nature and other Nature Publishing Group journals.
• Transgenic crops: an introduction and resource guide. Intended for teachers, nutritionists, journalists, and extension agents, this site provides a summary of work being done and provides links to other resources on the technology and issues surrounding transgenic crops.
  
• Genetically Modified foods (from CQ Researcher) Issues and controversies surrounding the GM debate. Ap 28, 2001 (REFERENCE H35.E37)
• Genetically Modified Crops (from Fargo Forum) Series of articles relating to GM crops, issues and controversies with special reference to North Dakota agriculture. Aug 11-13, 2003. For specific articles, search the Fargo Forum archives.
• Links to Genomic databases.

Bibliographic databases

Indexes

• Plant science journal indexes
• Agriculture, food science and natural resources journal indexes
• General magazines and newspapers
• Extension publications
• Library Catalogs
• Current awareness services

  All indexes available to NDSU students and staff. Browse Databases by title or subject.

Useful guides

Syntax Guide to searching selected journal index services.
How to get an article : guide to NDSU journal collections.

Online journals

Online journals related to crop sciences (available to NDSU students & staff only)

General Agriculture sites

• U.S. and State Government agencies Links to US and state agricultural agencies, directories, and search engines.
• General Agriculture web browsers and indexes Links to major agriculture directories and search engines.
• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Online "Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada provides information, research and technology, and policies and programs to achieve security of the food system, health of the environment and innovation for growth."

Crops and weeds

• General crop information
• Crop specific information
• Seed information
• Weed information
• Genomic and other databases
• U.S. Plant databases

Horticulture

• Horticulture and turfgrass information
• Forestry information
• U.S. Plant databases

Weather information for agriculture.

• North Dakota NDAWN system. Weather conditions collected from 66 stations distributed across North Dakota, the Red River Valley, and border regions of surrounding states. Hourly, daily, weekly, monthy, yearly data for maximum and minimum air temperature, wind speed, soil temperature, rain, dew point, wind chill, and more.
• USDA Office of the Chief Meteorologist. Produces the Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin, and the Major World Crop Areas and Climatic Profiles Handbook.

Trade and Production Statistics

• Production Links to North Dakota, other states', national, and international statistics.
• Trade Links to state, national, and international trade data.
• Commodity markets
• Situation & Outlook Report series Provides current and prospective information on commodity supply, demand, and price conditions.
• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Online Includes trade, situation and outlook, and other information for crops grown in Canada.

Pesticides, Herbicides and farm chemicals

• Links to pesticide and farm chemical databases and websites, and listings of selected library resources.

Library Reference resources

• Dictionary of agricultural and environmental science (REFERENCE S411 .T76 2003)
• Encyclopedia of agricultural science (REFERENCE S411 .E713 1994)
• Encyclopedia of applied plant sciences (REFERENCE TP248.16 .E537 2003)
• Encyclopedia of pest management ( SB950.7 .E63 2002)
• Plant sciences REFERENCE QK49 .P52 2001 4 vol. encyclopedia of botany, crop culture and plant diseases.

• Annual meeting abstracts of the American Society of Agronomy,
  Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America.REFERENCE SB183 .A3
  

Related library pages

NDSU Library Horticulture page

NDSU Library Plant Pathology page