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	Agriculture in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Agriculture is a major industry in the United States and the country is a net exporter of food.
		Agriculture is both a federal and a local responsibility with the United States Department of Agriculture being the federal department responsible.
		Agriculture is an extremely powerful interest group in American politics and has been since the founding of the USA.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USA_agriculture (997 words)

	Agriculture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Agriculture (a term which encompasses farming) is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other goods by the systematic raising of plants and animals.
		The history of agriculture is closely linked to human history, and agricultural developments have been crucial factors in social change, including the specialization of human activity.
		Agriculture is cited as a significant adverse impact to biodiversity in many nations' Biodiversity Action Plans, due to reduction of forests and other habitats when new lands are converted to farming.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agriculture (2511 words)

	USA - MS Agriculture - Murray State University
		The School of Agriculture offers a graduate program that provides an opportunity for professional agriculturist to obtain an education at the graduate level or prepare for terminal degree work at the doctoral level.
		For students with a four-year Bachelor Degree in Agriculture, the Master Degree may be completed in one-year (12 months) providing all prerequisites have been met.
		Agriculture or Agriculture Education courses (500 or 600 level) approved by faculty advisor
	www.studyintl.com /usa/01/02.htm (255 words)

	Eco-USA: Agriculture Links
		"...building a movement of rural and urban people to foster family-scale agriculture that cares for the land, sustains local economies and promotes social justice."
		"Our purpose is to develop an agricultural system with the ecological stability of the prairie and a grain yield comparable to that from annual crops."
		"...a diverse nationwide partnership of individuals and organizations cultivating grass roots efforts to engage in policy development processes that result in food and agricultural systems and rural communities that are healthy, environmentally sound, profitable, humane and just."
	www.eco-usa.net /links/ag.shtml (161 words)

	Organic Agriculture at FAO - Country profiles and statistics
		Though not all of the agricultural and horticultural projects funded through this programme are certified organic, the principle of agricultural sustainability is strongly emphasized.
		USA is the world’s largest market for organic food with retail sales of organic food and beverages amounting to approximately US$12 billion in 2003 (1).
		Organic agriculture is the fastest growing segment of USA agriculture with organic food sales accounting for 1-2 percent of total food sales which value was estimated at US$7.8 Billion in value for 2000 (1 and 2).
	www.fao.org /organicag/display/work/display.asp?country=USA&lang=en&disp=summaries (3605 words)

	Timeline - Agriculture
		Congressman Mike Espy of Mississippi was confirmed as Secretary of the Department of Agriculture.
		Agricultural Secretary Mike Espy accepted gratuities from Richard Douglas, a VP of Sun-Diamond Growers in California.
		Former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy was charged with seeking and accepting more than $35,000 dollars in trips, sports tickets and favors from companies that did business with his agency.
	timelinesdb.com /listevents.php?subjid=789&title=Agriculture (2123 words)

	The imperialist offensive and Indian agriculture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Our cultivators and agricultural workers must understand the implications of such proposals and if this move is to be opposed it must be noted that there is a clause in the WTO agreement that we have to import a minimum of 3 per cent of our production from foreign countries.
		The government of India has allowed USA MNCs having a monopoly in the agricultural industry such as Monsanto and Cargill to deprive our own farmers of their inherited intellectual property rights which have been handed down through generations of a hard and painful process of learning.
		In the USA agriculture accounted for 2% of GDP in 1998 and hardly 2 million people out of the population of 272 million are engaged in agriculture.
	www.revolutionarydemocracy.org /rdv7n1/agriculture.htm (3477 words)

	USATODAY.com - Hacker breaks into Agriculture Department's computer system (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		WASHINGTON (AP) — A hacker broke into the Agriculture Department's computer system and may have obtained names, Social Security numbers and photos of 26,000 Washington-area employees and contractors, the department said Wednesday.
		Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said the department will provide free credit monitoring for one year to anyone who might have been affected.
		The Agriculture Department has a toll-free number to call for information about the incident or about consumer-identity protections.
	usatoday.com /news/washington/2006-06-22-agriculture-hacker_x.htm?... (437 words)

	Socialist Party USA - Platform \| Agriculture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Socialist Party envisions a system of organic agriculture based on farming cooperatives.
		We support agricultural worker cooperatives, and oppose large corporate factory farms that lower food quality, cause profound damage to the environment, push farmers off the land, cruelly treat animals, and wreck small town culture.
		We support inspections of domestic and imported agricultural products to make sure they meet U.S. standards for food safety, and environmental and worker protection.
	www.sp-usa.org /about/platform/agriculture.html (304 words)

	RAFI-USA Programs - Contract Agriculture Reform
		The RAFI-USA Contract Agriculture Reform program is an effort to insure these contract arrangements between individual farmers and processors are fair and equitable.
		The current RAFI-USA Contract Agriculture Reform Program is an expansion of our 15 years of support for contract poultry farmers trapped in bad contracts.
		RAFI-USA is a private non-profit organization based in Pittsboro, NC dedicated to community, equity and diversity in agriculture.
	www.rafiusa.org /programs/CONTRACTAG/CONTRAG.html (466 words)

	USATODAY.com - Second mad cow case suspected in USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A suspected case of mad cow disease has been detected in the USA, agriculture officials announced Thursday.
		U.S. Department of Agriculture officials withheld most details about the animal and its location, but according to Andrea Morgan of the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, it was in a "high-risk population," meaning it was emaciated or showed signs of neurological problems.
		Since 1997, there has been a ban on the use of most animal proteins in cattle feed because it is thought that these proteins could spread the disease.
	www.usatoday.com /money/industries/food/2004-11-18-mad-cow_x.htm (586 words)

	USA Rice Federation: Industry: News
		He has also been a strong advocate for Nebraska agriculture producers during a period of depressed commodity prices and severe drought.
		The president selected Gov. Johanns, 54, because his experience as chief executive of the fourth largest agricultural exporting state gives him deep insight into the needs of America’s agriculture community.
		According to the president, Gov. Johanns has a proven record of promoting rural economic development in Nebraska; he understands the importance of homeland security, particularly the need to keep our nation’s food supply secure; and he is a strong leader who has demonstrated that he is not afraid to make the tough choices.
	www.usarice.com /news/news_detail.cgi/96/5 (235 words)

	About the USA > U.S. Economy > Agriculture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rainfall is modest to abundant over most areas of the country; rivers and underground water permit extensive irrigation where it is not.
		The first two decades of the 20th century turned out to be the golden age of American agriculture.
		American agriculture increasingly has become an "agribusiness." Agribusiness includes a variety of farm businesses and structures, from small, one-family corporations to huge conglomerates or multinational firms that own large tracts of land or that produce goods and materials used by farmers.
	usa.usembassy.de /economy-agriculture.htm (565 words)

	Agriculture \| The WWW Virtual Library
		The original Virtual Library of Irrigation and Hydrology was first established in 1995 as part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library System, providing dedicated and structured information related to the wider area of irrigation and hydrology over many years.
		In late 2003, it was revived and restructured now with the major objective to provide quality-controlled full-text publications and information online.
		this resource in English is indexed under: Agriculture, Population and Development Studies, Water.
	vlib.org /Agriculture (252 words)

	SAL, the Sustainable Agriculture Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Henry A Wallace Institute of Alternative Agriculture - A nonprofit, tax-exempt, membership research and education organization established in 1983 to encourage and facilitate the adoption of low-cost, resource-conserving, environmentally sound, and economically viable farming systems.
		International Agricultural Centre (IAC) (The Netherlands) - The International Agricultural Centre (IAC) is an internationally oriented institute that acts as a platform for exchange and transfer of applied knowledge on sustainable management of renewable natural resources in developing countries and countries in transition.
		Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry - Free publications on sustainable agriculture and development, availablein PDF format, from the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Canada.
	www.ippc.orst.edu /sare/sal (2057 words)

	Women in Agriculture Home Page
		USDA created the Women in Agriculture website to follow-up on the 1998 Second International Conference for Women in Agriculture.
		The Third International Conference on Women in Agriculture was October 2-4, 2002 in Madrid, Spain.
		USA speeches will be posted on October 4, 2002.
	www.wia.usda.gov (197 words)

	The website for the Kansas Department of Agriculture
		The solid foundation provided by the strength of our agency programs enables me, as secretary of agriculture, to effectively advocate for agriculture and our rural population.
		Currently, I am working with Governor Kathleen Sebelius and the Governor's Rural Life Task Force to find ways to preserve, renew and sustain the value of rural Kansas in the economic and cultural life of Kansas.
		Agriculture is a multibillion dollar industry that touches the lives of every Kansan.
	www.ksda.gov (316 words)

	USATODAY.com - Bush nominates Johanns as agriculture secretary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		WASHINGTON — President Bush on Thursday named Nebraska Republican Gov. Mike Johanns to be his next Agriculture secretary, succeeding Ann Veneman, who resigned last month.
		If his nomination is confirmed, Johanns will head the $78-billion-a-year U.S. Department of Agriculture, which has 113,000 employees.
		Challenges likely to come up soon for the new secretary include further opening overseas markets to U.S. agricultural products, including the explosive issue of selling bioengineered crops to Europe, and shepherding the next version of the farm appropriations bill.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2004-12-02-bush-ag_x.htm (698 words)

	Agricultural Remote Sensing Laboratory
		USA Minnesota: University of Minnesota, Precision Agriculture Centre
		USA Development of Precision Farming Techniques for South-eastern Agriculture
		Agriculture in the 21st Century; Proceedings of the Workshop on Remote Sensing at UC Davis
	www.age.uiuc.edu /remote-sensing/Bookmarks.htm (157 words)

	Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture
		The Kerr Center is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit educational foundation established in 1965 and headquartered near Poteau in southeastern Oklahoma.
		These are the first universities in the country to offer majors in the field, though others, including Colorado State and Michigan State, offer courses in organic farming.
		Community food security is a relatively new concept that encompasses three broad areas of concern: adequate food and nutrition for all income levels; sustainable agricultural production; and closer farmer-consumer connections through local markets.
	www.kerrcenter.com (845 words)

	English Books > Technical > Agriculture & Animal Husbandry
		Agricultural Privatization, Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe
		Agricultural Structure and Change in the Lower Hunter Valley of New South Wales: a Sociological Survey of Farm Families and Their Work
		Agriculture and the State in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
	www.netstoreusa.com /books/index/bkbta300.shtml (1556 words)

	Important data concerning BSE in the USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The argument that has ensued from this is that it was no surprise and so should not have been introduced in the USA as an emergency when the regulations could have been well prepared and discussed by the regulators long in advance.
		WE must not forget that the risk from BSE in the USA was going to be discussed in the US in February 2004 at a major committee and that good mathematical models were being put together to know what to do if a problem such as BSE should arrive in the country.
		The turnover in the USA of beef is estimated to be $70 billion and this appears to be growing faster than inflation currently.
	www.priondata.org /data/A_USBSE.html (10490 words)

	usa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA): College of Agriculture.
		Department of Plant Science, University of Wyoming, College of Agriculture, (USA).
		Institute for Molecular Virology (University of Wisconsin, USA) WWW-Server for Virology
	www.ippc.orst.edu /cicp/usa.htm (1584 words)

	Agriculture Division Home Page - Netafim USA Drip Irrigation
		Agriculture Division Home Page - Netafim USA Drip Irrigation
		In the agricultural industry – you need them all.
		But in the end – what you can count on is quality, reliable products and responsive service from Netafim.
	www.netafim-usa-agriculture.com (176 words)

	USDA Radio News Features
		If you are among the expected 33 million Americans who will have a real Christmas tree this season, you are carrying on an age old tradition and supporting a one billion dollar U.S. industry at the same time.
		Presenting agriculture´s point of view about conservation is leading NRCS to reach out to the nation´s environmental journalists.
		This fiscal 2007 year was already expected to set a record for U.S. agricultural exports, but it looks like those exports are going to be much higher than anyone had predicted.
	audioarchives.oc.usda.gov /radnewsfeat.asp (422 words)

	ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service: organic farming, sustainable ag, publications, newsletters
		NCAT Agriculture Specialist Jeff Schahczenski recently spoke with organic grain and livestock farmer Mikel Lund.
		This directory of on-the-job learning opportunities in sustainable and organic agriculture in the U.S. (and some in Canada) has been published since 1989 as a tool to help farmers and apprentices connect with each other.
		ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service is managed by the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) and is funded under a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Business-Cooperative Service.
	www.attra.org (382 words)

	Environmental News and Agricultural News: Top Stories
		25 January 2006 - The 15,000 square foot organic greenhouse in Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa, USA, produces an abundance of certified organic produce that is purchased by restaurants and stores as far away as Chicago.
		The issue, which has come to a head in Iowa because of new legislation being introduced, is being taken up by both organic farmers and states' rights advocates.
		17 August 2006 - Grass that was genetically engineered for golf courses is growing in the wild, posing one of the first threats of agricultural biotechnology escaping from the farm in the United States, a new study says.
	www.globalgoodnews.com /environmental-news.html (1542 words)

	USA Agriculture - Government
		Enhance the quality of life for the American people by supporting production of agriculture.
		It would be virtually impossible to overemphasize the importance of exports to the prosperity of U.S. agriculture.
		For fiscal year 1997, U.S. exports reached $57.3 billion -- second only to the record $59.8 billion achieved just the year before.
	www.tumpline.com /stackyard/orgs/government/usa.html (80 words)

	Network for Good :: Search for a Charity
		A particular emphasis is placed on the agricultural sector.
		Specific types of assistance provided under this program include the provision of credit, material input (seeds, fertilizer, tools, livestock, equipment, etc.) and technical training to small farmers and others in agriculture and food related industries.
		Providing training and technical assistance and various agricultural inputs (like greenhouses, beehives, farming tools, fruit trees, etc.) to about 2,000 small farmers and agri-businesses in Bosnia through a USDA grant.
	partners.guidestar.org /controller/searchResults.gs?action_gsReport=1&partner=networkforgood&ein=38-2846307 (1169 words)

	Acres U.S.A. -- A Voice for Eco-Agriculture
		Acres U.S.A. is North America's oldest, largest magazine covering commercial-scale organic and sustainable farming...
		Renowned consultant Neal Kinsey explains what to expect from a good soil test and looks at some of the costly dangers of improper or insufficient testing.
		A respected consultant takes a look at "the many faces of sustainable agriculture" and decides there's less conflict than common ground.
	www.acresusa.com /magazines/magazine.htm (308 words)

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