Agriculture
and government programs for rural areas
This page
provides links to assist in reporting on agriculture. Please click here to access older blog items that may be of interest to those reporting
on agriculture.
Please let the Institute
know about links that do not work, or about sources we should
add. If a resource here helped you in covering a story, please
let us know by emailing al.cross@uky.edu.
American Agricultural
Editors' Association, http://www.ageditors.com/
Agricultural
History Society, http://www.aghistorysociety.org/
American
Farm Bureau Federation, http://www.fb.org
American Horse
Council, http://www.horsecouncil.org
Cattlemen's Beef
Board (checkoff for promotion, research, education),
http://www.beefboard.org
Community Alliance
with Family Farmers, http://www.caff.org
Farm subsidy database:
The Environmental Working Group has a farm-subsidy
database at http://www.ewg.org/farm/index.php.
FedStats:
Agriculture Statistics,
http://www.fedstats.gov/key_stats/index.php?markup=XHTML&pageType=program&id=agriculture
FedStats provides official statistical information on Federal
agencies reporting expenditures of at least $500,000 per year
in one or more statistical activities.
National FFA Organization, http://www.ffa.org
Institute of
Food and Agricultural Sciences, http://www.ifas.ufl.edu
Iowa Corn,
http://www.iowacorn.org/
USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture State & National Partners,
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/qlinks/partners/state_partners.html
Land Stewardship
Project, http://www.landstewardshipproject.org
612-722-6377 George Boody gboody@landstewardshipproject.org
National
Agroforestry Center, http://www.unl.edu/nac
National Center
for Food and Agriculture Policy, http://www.ncfap.org/
202-328-5183, Joe Dunn, CEO, 1616
North American
Agricultural Journalists, http://www.naaj.net/
Kathleen Phillips, executive secretary/treasurer, 979-845-2872 ka-phillips@tamu.edu
6434 Hurta Lane, Bryan, Texas 77808
Nutrient
Database, USDA http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/
Sustainable
Agriculture Coalition, http://sustainableagriculture.net/
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, http://www.iatp.org/
USDA Rural Development,
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov
This group of agencies in the U.S. Department of Agriculture
help finance water and sewer systems, housing, health clinics,
emergency-service facilities and, through the Rural
Utulities Service, electric and telephone service.
It makes loans to businesses through banks and community-managed
lending pools, offers technical assistance and information to
help start and improve cooperatives get started and improve
the effectiveness of their member services. It also provide
technical assistance for community empowerment programs.
University
of California Small Farm Program, http://www.sfc.ucdavis.edu
University of
Kentucky College of Agriculture news site, http://www.ca.uky.edu/news
Women, Food and
Agriculture Network, http://www.wfan.org
515-460-2477, PO Box 611, AMes, IA 50010, info@wfan.org
World Agricultural
Forum, http://www.worldagforum.com/
314-567-9600, 11696 Lilburn Park Road, Suite B, Saint Louis, Missouri 63146, jbrooks@worldagforum.org
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