Environmental Issue: Agriculture
Background Information
Natural Resource Management and Best Management Practices:
- Sustainable Agriculture Teacher Guide
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/ecosystems/teacherguide5.html - Dept. of Primary Industries AU
http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/web/root/domino/cm_da/nrenfa.nsf/frameset/NRE%20Farming%20and%20Agriculture?OpenDocument - U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Water Share, Managing Water on the Farm
http://www.usbr.gov/mp/watershare/resources/agriwater/index.cfm - Issues in Ecology, Published by the Ecological Society of America
Human Alteration of the Global Nutrient Cycle: Causes and Consequences
http://www.esa.org/sbi/sbi_issues/issues_pdfs/issue1.pdf
Nutrient Pollution of Coastal Rivers, Bays, and Seas
http://www.esa.org/sbi/sbi_issues/issues_pdfs/issue7.pdf
- Educating about Agriculture
http://www.ageducate.org/ - Discovery Gardens - garden building and sustaining resources
http://www.mindspring.com/~discoverygardens/dgihome.html - Agricultural Biotechnology Resource
http://agbiotech.tamu.edu/ - AgNIC Plant Science Page
http://deal.unl.edu/CYT_agnic/SiteForUser/index.html
- U.S. Crop Production Reports
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/reports/nassr/field/pcp-bb/>
Farm Production/Food Sciences/Food Industry
- The Food Trust- School Market and School Policies in Philadelphia
http://www.thefoodtrust.org/schools.html - Furmano's
http://www.furmanos.com - California Tomato Commission
http://www.tomato.org - Potato Help
http://www.potatohelp.com - See Integrated Pest Management Background Information
- Penn State Agriculture Economics and Rural Society Resources http://extension.aers.psu.edu/ExtResourceSel.asp
- PA Agriculture Awareness Foundation
http://www.cas.psu.edu/docs/CASPROF/agclassroom/agclassroom.html
Specifics for Pennsylvania