• Purpose and Use of this List
• Jump-off Points – Cattle and Agriculture Related
• Jump-off Points – Veterinary Related
• Cattle and Agriculture related Web-sites
• Centers, Extension Collections and Conference Proceedings
• Companies Serving Agriculture
• Farm Family Conflict Resolution
• Farm Family Mental Health Resources
• Food Safety Web-sites
• Important Government Web-sites
• Information Technology
• Livestock Enterprise Management, Budgets and Economics
• Nutrition
• Other Important Internet Resources
• Personnel Management and Training
• Producer-oriented Web Publications
• Producer's and Practitioner's Web-sites
• Professional and Trade Association Web-sites
• Sites or Issues Generally Unfavorable to Livestock Agriculture
• Specific Disease and Issue Web-sites
• Sustainable Agriculture
• Trade Journal Web-sites
• Selected Veterinary Medical Mailing Lists
• World Wide Web Search Tools

Purpose and Use of this List:

This list is selected to provide entry points to the Web for veterinary students and practitioners to find veterinary-related information and to give you an idea of what is available on the Web. Most important are those sites that function as sifters and collectors of links ("Jump-off Points") to other sites that actually have the information. A problem with such sites is that unlike a library of physical materials, websites of electronic materials rapidly change, move, disappear, reappear and are reorganized on computer operators' whims. Increasing numbers of dead links and "URL not found" are returned messages as the site ages. More and more materials are being placed on the web every day; some are excellent. These are sites that I have tripped over while surfing with search engines or have been listed elsewhere. I have visited each one at least once to take a quick look at its content but have not audited these sites for what I consider to be correct information nor do I endorse anything contained in these sites. This is not by any means an exhaustive list and some gems are likely missing! Absence of gems is an oversight on my part.

If a link off of a directory site has something useful, "bookmark" it so you can find it again. If it is really good, either print a copy or save a copy of the html file to disk to preserve it. If something disappears, try using one or more of the search engines (remember that different engines give different results) with some of the unique terms in the document (e.g. document ID numbers, authors names, key technical terms) to find the document at a different location. Try trimming the right ends off of the "Not Found" URLs back to the next "/" to see if you find an index to the site or other clues. Using this technique, you often can find other useful materials on a site with a good hit.

Remember that you must judge Internet information even more carefully than print information. Anybody can publish anything on the Internet, often without any filtering by editors, publishers, or reviewers that occurs for most print media. All they have to do is establish their own site.

To increase the utility of this list in the printed form, the URL’s are not hidden. Within each section, most sites are listed alphabetically. Use your browser's "find" function to find occurrences of words in the following list. If I linked you to the middle of a site, it is because I didn't see a good pointer from the home or index page to the "good stuff". If you find useful sites that I should consider listing, find any that I should remove from this list or find broken links, please let me know.

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Jump-off Points – Cattle and Agriculture Related:

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Jump-off Points – Veterinary Related:

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Cattle and Agriculture related Web-sites:

Centers, Extension Collections and Conference Proceedings:

Michigan State University Extension Information Management Program (large index - beef, dairy, economics, family; mixture of full text and citation only)
http://www.msue.msu.edu/msue/imp/

Michigan State University Extension Dairy Bulletins (prior to 1/94)
http://www.msue.msu.edu/msue/imp/modda/masterda.html

Mid-Atlantic Dairy Management Conference

Implementing Competitive Business Strategies (2001)
http://www.das.psu.edu/Index.cfm?PageDefs=Publications/MADMC2001/_incPgDefs.cfm

Systematic Approach to Dairying in the Next Millennium (1999)
http://www.das.psu.edu/teamdairy/expand/pdf/midatlantic.pdf

1997
http://www-das.cas.psu.edu/dairymap/publication/dadmc97/index.htm (dead 2/02)

Missouri Animal Sciences Publications
http://muextension.missouri.edu/xplor/agguides/ansci/index.htm

Content Examples: Assisting the Beef Cow at Calving Time, Calving Difficulty in Beef Cattle: BIF Fact Sheet, Flush Gutters for Dairies, Getting Problem Cows Pregnant. The Systems Concept of Beef Production: BIF Fact Sheet, Using NDF and ADF to Balance Diets

Missouri Commercial Agriculture Program (some on-line proceedings under main menu and under beef group)
http://agebb.missouri.edu/commag/

Montana Livestock Nutrition Conference (1998)
http://agadsrv.msu.montana.edu/extension/Beef-JP/NutritionConf/NutritionConf.htm

National Agricultural Safety Database
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nasd/nasdhome.html

National Center for Biotechnology Information (National Library of Medicine / National Institutes of Health)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

National Center for Agricultural Law (Univ. Arkansas)
http://law.uark.edu/arklaw/aglaw/

National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) Publications (e.g., BQA- Beef Quality Assurance, IRM - Integrated Resource Management)
http://www.beef.org/library/index.htm

National Dairy Herd Improvement Handbook (DHIA)
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/AgrEnv/ndd/dairy/

NebGuide (Nebraska Extension Guides)
http://ianrwww.unl.edu/ianr/pubs/catalog/animdis.htm#cattle

North Dakota State University Beef Publications
http://www.ext.nodak.edu/extpubs/beef.htm

Penn Conference 1996 - "Feeding and Managing the Transition Cow" papers.
http://cahpwww.nbc.upenn.edu/pc96/pc96.html

Pennsylvania State University

Animal Housing Systems Factsheets
http://server.age.psu.edu/dept/extension/Factsheets/g/

PenPages (a collection of 14,000 agricultural extension newsletters - doesn't always work)
gopher://psupena.psu.edu:70/      (gopher site - the pre-browser method of exchange)
http://www.penpages.psu.edu/     (browser site - under construction)

Purdue University

Cooperative Extension Publications On-line ( good set of risk management guides under ag. economics)
http://www.agcom.purdue.edu/AgCom/Pubs/menu.htm

Purdue Dairy Page
http://www.anr.ces.purdue.edu/anr/anr/dairy/frame.htm

Publications and Articles on Calves
http://www.ansc.purdue.edu/dairy/calves/calfpub.htm

Rumen Function Conference
http://www.msu.edu/user/rumen/

Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Animal Welfare (European Commission)
(Technical reports are located under "Outcome of discussions")
http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg24/health/sc/scah/index_en.html

Texas

Cattle (documents and links)
http://agprogram.tamu.edu/agropolis/animals/cattle.html

Texas Agricultural Extension Service Publications
http://agpublications.tamu.edu/

Texas Beef Cattle Management Handbook
http://animalscience-extension.tamu.edu/beef/toc.html

Range / Ranching Issues (documents and links)
http://agprogram.tamu.edu/agropolis/farm/agenviro.html

Wildlife
http://agprogram.tamu.edu/agropolis/park/wildlife.html

The Babcock Institute: International Dairy Research and Development, Univ. of Wisconsin
http://babcock.cals.wisc.edu/

Animal Science
http://agpublications.tamu.edu/pubs/eanim/

Over 100 dairy education documents on-line (calf management, …)

UC Agricultural Health & Safety Center at Davis
http://agcenter.ucdavis.edu/agcenter/welcome.htm

UC Davis Veterinary Medicine Extension: Fact Sheets and Information:

Beef Care Practices
http://www.vetnet.ucdavis.edu/vetext/INF-BE_CarePrax.html
Dairy Care Practices
http://www.vetnet.ucdavis.edu/vetext/INF-DA_CarePrax.html
Swine Care Practices
http://www.vetnet.ucdavis.edu/vetext/INF-SW_CarePrax.html

US Dairy Forage Research Center (USDFRC) (U of Wisconsin)
http://www.dfrc.wisc.edu/welcome.html

On-line dairy forage publication index
http://www.dfrc.wisc.edu/publications.html

University of Nevada Extension Publications
http://www.ag.unr.edu/vetmed/Extension/Ext_Pubs.htm

Heifer development: The key to a profitable cow herd
http://www.ag.unr.edu/vetmed/Extension/Heifer/heifer_development.htm

University of Wisconsin Dairy Science Dept. Extension Publications
http://www.wisc.edu/dysci/pubs/index.htm

Utah State University Extension Agriculture Publications
http://www.ext.usu.edu/publica/agpubs.htm

Veterinary Table of Contents and Veterinary Conference Proceedings (Tables of Contents includes journals not indexed by Medline or CAB, such as Bovine Practitioner, since 1995. Veterinary Conference Proceedings includes list of contents of AABP Annual Mtg Proceedings)
http://www.medvet.umontreal.ca/biblio/

Whatcom County Cooperative Extension - Washington State
http://whatcom.wsu.edu/ag/dairy/dairy.htm

Dairy Options Pilot Program (market risk management)
Manure Management
Resource Management & Farm Plan Development Resources

Western Agricultural Economics Association 1997 Annual Meeting Full Papers (includes production economics and farm management, e.g. value of pregnancy testing range cows)
http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/waea97.html

Western Canadian Dairy Seminar Home Page (University of Alberta - entire 95, 96, 97 & 98 proceedings are on-line)
http://www.afns.ualberta.ca/wcds/index.htm

Content Examples (1996) - Advances in Dairy Technology - Focus on the Future. Close-Up Dry Period: Feeding Management for a Smooth Transition (Grummer), Impact of Nutrition on Manure Management (Chalupa and Ferguson), Managing the Feeding System for Optimal Dry Matter Intake (Spain), Matching Protein Delivery to Milk Production (Chalupa and Sniffen), Optimal Body Condition Score at Calving For Production and Health (Spain), Surfing the Net (Varner), The Link Between Nutrition, Acidosis, Laminitis and Environment (Nocek)

Western Dairy Herd Management Conference
http://www.wdmc.org/

On-line Proceedings
http://www.wdmc.org/proceed.htm

1999 Proceedings (198 page pdf - alternate source)
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/ansi/dairycon/99WDMC.pdf

Western Forage / Beef Group Newsletter (Alberta Agriculture research & extension)
http://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/crops/forage/wfbg/

William H. Miner Agricultural Research Institute (New York)
http://www.whminer.com/

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Companies Serving Agriculture:

Agribiz (weather, crop conditions, news)
http://www.agribiz.com/

Agway
http://www.agwayagproducts.com/

Agway Cooperator: Your guide to profitable farming
http://www.agwayagproducts.com/cooperator/

American Protein Corporation
http://www.americanprotein.com/

APC Calf Notes (Dr. Jim Quigley - formerly at the University of Tennessee)
http://www.americanprotein.com/calf/calfnotes/APCcalfnotes.htm

Animax Ltd. - Producers of Veterinary Products (copper, selenium, iodine and cobalt slow-release products, bacterial feed additives)
http://www.animax-vet.com/index.html

Aqua Cow Rise System
http://www.downcow.com/

Bar Diamond (source of rumen and other cannulae)
http://www.bardiamond.com/

BASF Animal Nutrition
http://www.basf.com/businesses/consumer/animalnutrition/index.html

BASF Technical Support - Example documents
http://www.basf.com/businesses/consumer/animalnutrition/technical/index.html

A Guide For Farm Feeding Trials
http://www.basf.com/businesses/consumer/animalnutrition/pdfs/nn_15.pdf

Physico-chemical Properties of Vitamins, Trace Minerals and Carriers
http://www.basf.com/businesses/consumer/animalnutrition/pdfs/kc_9617.pdf

Vitamin E Fortification for Dairy Calves
http://www.basf.com/businesses/consumer/animalnutrition/pdfs/kc_9310.pdf

Vitamin E for Dairy Cows: Reproductive Benefits
http://www.basf.com/businesses/consumer/animalnutrition/pdfs/ra_912.pdf

Using a Two-Step Vitamin E Supplementation Program During the Prepartum Period for
Dairy Cows
http://www.basf.com/businesses/consumer/animalnutrition/pdfs/nn_9701.pdf

Bayer Bayovac
http://www.bayovac.com/

Biovance Technologies (Bio-Chlor, Fermenten)
http://www.biovance.com/

Cyberstockyard, LLC (an on-line livestock market)
http://www.cyberstockyard.com/

Delaval
http://www.milkproduction.com/

Elanco Animal Health
http://www.elanco.com/

F.A.R.M.E Institute, Inc.
http://www.farme.com/

Articles (dairy cow nutrition)
http://www.farme.com/articles.htm

Hoof-It (hoof repair blocks)
http://www.hoof-it.com/

Intervet

Avian Influenza
http://www.avian-influenza.com/

John Deere
http://www.deere.com/

John Deere Publishing
http://www.deere.com/aboutus/pub/jdpub/

Monsanto (Posilac - bovine somatotropin rBST)
http://www.monsanto.com/dairy/

MoorMan's Incorporated                (Note "Feedfacts" newsletters)
http://www.moormans.com/

New Holland North America
http://www.newholland.com/na/

NOBL Laboratories Inc. (Boehringer Ingelheim)
http://www.nobl.com/

Pfizer Animal Health
http://www.pfizer.com/ah/

http://www.pfizerbeef.com/

http://www.pfizerdairy.com/

http://www.pfizerpork.com/

Pharmacia & Upjohn Animal Health
http://www.pnuanimalhealth.com/default.asp?next=1

Pioneer Hi-Bred: Nutrition – Research and Technology (impressive on silage!)
http://www.pioneer.com/usa/gra/restech/nutrition.htm

Roche Vitamins, Inc. Nutrifacts
http://www.nutrafacts.com/index.html

Schering-Plough Animal Health
http://www.sp-animalhealth.com/index.html

Select Sires
http://www.selectsires.com/index.html

Reproduction Management Tools (DeJarnette)
http://www.selectsires.com/reproman.html

Estrous Synchronization
http://www.selectsires.com/selsynch.html

Southern States Cooperative
http://www.southernstates-coop.com/

The Farm Equipment Network: Your Web Site for Used Farm Machinery
http://www.farmequip.com/

Valley Agricultural Software (DairyComp 305)
http://www.vas.com/

Westfalia Systemat
http://www.westfaliadairy.com/

Farm Family Conflict Resolution:

Conflict in farm families between siblings and between generations over farm management and inheritance issues is very common, occurring in a majority of farm families. Because veterinarians are often caught in the middle of these painful conflicts, I’ve included these on-line resources from several cooperative extension services. These sites have additional materials. Files with "*.pdf" require Adobe Acrobat to read, which is free for downloading.

Farm Family Mental Health:     (draft)

Because of market uncertainty and factors beyond the producer's control, modern livestock agriculture is becoming a more intense, uncertain livelihood undergoing rapid change. In the face of widely fluctuating, uncertain commodity prices, both short and long term risk-taking may require literally "betting the farm." Unforeseen changes in market conditions may change previous investments from a sure thing to high risk. Because of the nature of the relationship between the veterinarian and the producer, veterinarians are often in a position to recognize when the mental stress from this pressure is overwhelming an individual or a family and may be leading to disaster and tragedy. To assist veterinarians in this situation, I’ve included these on-line resources from several cooperative extension services. These sites have additional materials. Files with "*.pdf" require Adobe Acrobat to read, which is free for downloading.

Dr. Val Farmer, Ph.D. Rural Mental Health & Family Relationships
http://www.valfarmer.com/

Partners for Farm Health and Safety Homepage (University of Minnesota)
http://www.bae.umn.edu/~fs/partners/index.html

Recognize and Manage the Stress of Farm Life (Ohio State)
http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~ohioline/aex-fact/0693.html

Stress & Family Resources (22 documents - North Carolina State)
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/drought/stress.html

Dealing with Depression
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/drought/dro-5.html

Managing Farm Stress
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/drought/dro-3.html

Transitions and Changes: Practical Strategies (CSU)
http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/consumer/10214.html

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Food Safety Web-sites:

Agri-Food Risk Management & Communication (D Powell, University of Guelph - AnimalNet, FSNet, AgNet)
http://www.plant.uoguelph.ca/safefood/

American Council on Science and Health (press releases, studies and reports (require Adobe Acrobat))
http://www.acsh.org/ (main) http://www.acsh.org/food/index.html (food safety)

CAST (Council for Agricultural Science and Technology)
http://www.cast-science.org/index.html

• Estrogenicity and Endocrine Disruption
• Foodborne Pathogens: Review of Recommendations
• Food Safety, Sufficiency, and Security
• Radiation Pasteurization of Food

FAO
http://www.fao.org/

FAO/WHO document repository
http://www.fao.org/documents/

Manual on meat inspection for developing countries
http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/t0756e/T0756E00.htm

Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA - veterinary dug residues, aflatoxins, BST)
http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/ECONOMIC/ESN/jecfa/jecfa.htm

FDA

FDA/CFSAN Foodborne Pathogens and Natural Toxins (The "Bad Bug Book")
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/intro.html

National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments (NCIMS) Model Documents
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~ear/p-nci.html

Grade A Pasteurized Milk Ordinance (PMO - 1999)
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~acrobat/pmo99-1.pdf

Fight BAC! Fighting the Problem of Foodborne Illness
http://www.fightbac.org/

FSNet Online Food Safety Net News (, Doug Powell, U Guelph) Archives (Iowa State)
http://www.plant.uoguelph.ca/safefood/

Current News
http://www.exnet.iastate.edu/Pages/families/fs/news.html

Archives
http://www.plant.uoguelph.ca/riskcomm/archives/fsnet-archives.htm

Gateway to US Government Food Safety Information
http://www.foodsafety.gov/

Integrated Food Safety Information Delivery System (Iowa)
http://www.profoodsafety.org/

Food Irradiation

Food Irradiation Article (1997)
http://web.mit.edu/techreview/www/articles/nd97/skerrett.html

Food Irradiation - National Food Safety Database
http://www.foodsafety.ufl.edu/wheel/ww2337.htm

The Use of Irradiation for Food Quality and Safety - Institute of Food Science & Technology
http://www.ifst.org/hottop11.htm

Food Safety Project Home (Iowa State University Extension, FS-Net Archives, HACCP)
http://www.exnet.iastate.edu/Pages/families/fs/homepage.html

Gateway to Government Food Safety Information
http://www.foodsafety.gov/

Institute of Food Science & Technology (IFST – UK, includes reviews on foods and BST, BSE, PCB'd, DT104, crypto, listeria)
http://www.ifst.org/

International Food Information Council
http://ificinfo.health.org/

National Food Safety Database
http://www.foodsafety.org/index.htm

North Carolina State Univ. Food Safety Information (Links to Internet materials on specific agents and practices - huge)
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/foodsci/agentinfo/

USDA Foodborne Illness Education Information Center
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodborne/foodborn.htm

WHO European Centre for Environment and Health - Food Safety
http://www.who.it/ht/food_safety.htm

WHO Food Safety
http://www.who.ch/fsf/

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Important Government Web-sites:

With time, virtually all state and federal regulations important to veterinarians from disease control programs to animal movement requirement to hunting and fishing regulations are going to be on-line. Eventually, most of the paper work will be submitted, endorsed and exchanged on-line as well.

Agricultural Databases for Decision Support (ADDS)
http://www.reeusda.gov/adds/

Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank (FARAD)
http://www.reeusda.gov/adds/farad.htm

Animal Care (USDA Animal Welfare Site)
http://www.aphis.usda.gov:80/reac/

Animal Improvement Programs Laboratory (National DHIA Statistics - select NCDHIP Reports)
http://aipl.arsusda.gov/index.html

Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/

DPDx - CDC Parasitology Diagnostic Web Site
http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/

Emerging Infectious Diseases (on-line journal)
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/eid.htm

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/mmwr.html

The current Compendium of Animal Rabies Control is here.

Center for Animal Health Monitoring – USDA NAHMS National Animal Health Monitoring Reports
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/ceah/cahm/

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
http://cfpub1.epa.gov/npdes/index.cfm

Animal Feeding Operations
http://cfpub1.epa.gov/npdes/home.cfm?program_id=7

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) - Final Rule
http://cfpub1.epa.gov/npdes/afo/cafofinalrule.cfm?program_id=7

EPA Office of Wastewater Management

Proposed (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation) CAFO Rule
http://www.epa.gov/owm/afos/rule.htm

FDA

FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/

National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments (NCIMS) Model Documents
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~ear/p-nci.html

Grade A Pasteurized Milk Ordinance (PMO - 1999)
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~acrobat/pmo99-1.pdf

FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine (Information on off-label usage, prohibited drugs and valid client patient relationships)
http://www.cvm.fda.gov/

CVM Green Book (The FDA Approved Animal Drug List)
http://www.fda.gov/cvm/fda/greenbook/greenbook.html

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO - statistical databases, technical documents)
http://www.fao.org/default.htm

Idaho One Plan Farm & Ranch Resource Center (Regulatory information and agency requirements - includes 1995 PMO)
http://www.oneplan.state.id.us/

US FedStats (Federal statistics site)
http://www.fedstats.gov/

US Small Business Administration (on-line info on starting, financing, running a small business)
http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/

United States Government Printing Office (GPO)
http://www.access.gpo.gov/index.html

Search the complete Federal Register, Congressional Record, Code of Federal Regulations
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aaces002.html

USDA Agriculture Marketing Service

How to Buy Meat (meat grades)
http://www.ams.usda.gov/howtobuy/meat.htm

USDA APHIS (Import-export regulations, disease control program information)
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/

USDA Center for Veterinary Biologicals

Licensed product catalog (2002)
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/cvb/ProductCodeCatalogue6-02.pdf

Canadian equivalent list
http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/anima/vetbio/prod/vbhpg17e.shtml

USDA National Agricultural Library 
http://www.nalusda.gov/

NAL Information Research Services -- National Agricultural Library
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ref/index.html

The Biotechnology Information Center (Includes bibliographies, resources and links for information on RBST)
http://www.nal.usda.gov/bic/

Information Resources on the Care and Welfare of Dairy Cattle 1996 - 2002
http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/pubs/dairy/dairy.htm

NAL Publications and Databases
http://www.nal.usda.gov/pubs_dbs/

NAL Services and Programs
http://www.nalusda.gov/services.htm

USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (also has links to state statistical services)
http://www.usda.gov/nass/

Census of Agriculture (National, state and county enterprise breakdown data)
http://www.nass.usda.gov/census     (Go Data Query by Geographic Region, State, County, Table 14)

USDA Online Directory of Professional Workers in Agriculture (Research station scientists, extension personnel, land-grant university faculty)
http://www.pwd.reeusda.gov/pwd/

USDA APHIS VS Licensing & Policy Development (biological licensing requirements)
http://aphisweb.aphis.usda.gov/vs/cvb/lpd/

Washington State Department of Agriculture

• Animal Health Handbook for Veterinarians (new edition being developed)
• Reportable Diseases

World Health Organization Statistical Information System (WHO)
http://www.who.ch/whosis/index.html

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Information Technology:

Livestock Enterprise Management, Budgets and Economics:

AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics (University of Minnesota - dept. papers from across U.S.)
http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/

Agriculture & Business Management Index - Colorado State University (includes information on how to prepare partial budgets, enterprise budgets and standardized performance analysis)
http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/CoopExt/NWR/ABM/abmndx.htm

Ag Manager Info (Dept Ag Economics, Kansas SU)
http://www.agmanager.info/

American Institute for Economic Research Cost-of-Living Calculator
http://www.aier.org/research/col.php

American Society of Agricultural Consultants
http://207.174.132.117/

American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers
http://206.168.118.218/

Arizona Ranchers’ Management Guide
http://ag.arizona.edu/arec/pubs/rmg/ranchers.html

Armed to Capture Profits (Texas A&M)
http://agecoext.tamu.edu/brochure/brochure.htm

Beef Budgets (Excel Spreadsheets, Virginia Cooperative Extension)
http://www.ext.vt.edu/departments/agecon/spreadsheets/livestock/beef.html

Cattle and Beef Handbook (NCBA)
http://www.beef.org/library/handbook/introduction.htm
http://www.beef.org/library/handbook/downloads/handbook.pdf (Complete PDF)

Beef Economics (NCBA - macroeconomics of the beef industry)
http://www.beef.org/library/handbook/economics.htm (HTML)
http://www.beef.org/library/handbook/downloads/economics.pdf (PDF)

Center for Dairy Profitability, University of Wisconsin (documents, downloadable spreadsheets)
http://cdp.wisc.edu

Center for Farm Financial Management (University of Minnesota)
http://www.cffm.umn.edu/

Colorado State Cooperative Extension Farm Management Publications
http://www.ColoState.EDU/Depts/CoopExt/PUBS/FARMMGT/pubfarm.html

Computer Budgets (Zipped Quattro Pro) University of Georgia Agriculture and Applied Economics Department
http://www.ces.uga.edu/Agriculture/agecon/BUDGETS.html

Cow Culling Decision Support System (University of Arizona)
http://ag.arizona.edu/AREC/cull/culling.html

Cowculator (Oklahoma State University - beef cow nutrition software)
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/exten/cowculator/index.htm

Computer Software - Oklahoma State University (beef management programs and spreadsheets)
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/EXTEN/cowculator/extsoft/EXTsoft.htm

Crop and Livestock Budgets (1996 - Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada)
http://ext.usu.edu/agecon/budglst.html

Dairy Budgets (Excel Spreadsheets, Virginia Cooperative Extension)
http://www.ext.vt.edu/departments/agecon/spreadsheets/livestock/dairy.html

Dairy Business Analysis Project (Florida)
http://www.dps.ufl.edu/DBAP/sitemapidx.htm

Dairy Excel's 15 Measures of Dairy Farm Competitiveness (Ohio State Bulletin 864-98 - big)
http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~ohioline/b864/index.html

Farm Business Economics - Briefing Room - USDA Economic Research Service
http://www.ers.usda.gov/briefing/fbe/index.htm

Farm Costs and Returns Home Page - USDA Economic Research Service (printed tables and data in spreadsheet format)
http://www.ers.usda.gov/briefing/farmincome/

Farm Financial Standards Task Force - Financial Guidelines for Agricultural Producers - Farm Financial Standards Council
(Agricultural Bankers Division of American Bankers Association)
http://www.ffsc.org/

Farm Management Guides, Kansas State University
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/agec2/

Farm Management Resources at Utah State University
http://www.ext.usu.edu/agecon/

Financial Performance Measures for Kansas Beef Cow Farms
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/dp_ansi/CatlDay/lan.htm

Harlan Ritchie (Michigan State)

The U.S. Beef Industry: Where Are We Headed?
http://www.msu.edu/~ritchieh/papers/whereareweheaded.html

The Optimum Cow: What criteria must she meet?
http://www.msu.edu/~ritchieh/papers/optimumcow.html

Why is Efficiency so Important to the Beef Industry?
http://www.msu.edu/~ritchieh/papers/fortdodgeefficiency.html

Hieros Gamos Agricultural Law    (Links to Internet law materials)
http://www.hg.org/agri.html

IRM-SPA (Integrated Resource Management - Standardized Performance Analysis)

Conducting A Comparative Analysis of Your Herd'sProduction Facts With Other Herds' Production Facts (H Hughes)
http://ag.arizona.edu/arec/wemc/cattlemarket/HdsPrdFc.pdf

Cow-Calf SPA Analysis in the Southwest 1991-99
http://agecoext.tamu.edu/spa/standperformance.pdf

NCBA Integrated Resource Management (IRM - IRM Newsletter, SPA-EZ form and instructions)
http://www.beef.org/business/production/irm/index.htm

IRM-SPA (Texas A&M)
http://agecoext.tamu.edu/spa/

Analysis: The Key to Cow-Calf Business Management – SPA, Accounting, Records Review
http://agecoext.tamu.edu/spa/analysis_files/analysis1.htm

Cow-calf Business Management – Production and Financial Data and Analysis
http://agecoext.tamu.edu/spa/papers/cowcalfbusinessmanagement.htm

Using Financial Information to Improve Ranch Performance Efficiency
http://agecoext.tamu.edu/spa/papers/newmexicopaper.htm

Measuring Cow-calf profitability and financial efficiency (H Dunn)
http://www.bifconference.com/bif2002/BIFsymposium_pdfs/Dunn_02BIF.pdf

Oklahoma

Cow-Calf Standardized Performance Analysis (SPA)
http://www.agweb.okstate.edu/pearl/agecon/farm/f-222.html

Interpreting Cow-Calf Standardized Performance Analysis (SPA) Results
http://www.agweb.okstate.edu/pearl/agecon/farm/f-232.pdf

Iowa

Critical Control Points for Profitability in the Cow-Calf Enterprise
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Pages/ansci/beefreports/asl1750.pdf

Financial Benchmarks for Beef Producers
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Pages/ansci/beefreports/asl1752.pdf

Iowa State University Dairy Budgets
http://www.exnet.iastate.edu/Pages/dairy/budgets/budgets.html

Understanding and Managing Costs in Beef Cow-Calf Herds (J. Lawrence, Iowa)
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/faculty/lawrence/Acrobat/IRMWhitePaper.pdf

John Lawrence’s Home Page (Iowa State University Livestock Economist)
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/faculty/lawrence/

Kansas Farm Bureau Commodities (Commodity prices and analysis)
http://www.kfb.org/Market Pages/markets.htm

Livestock Enterprise Budgets (South Carolina)
http://cherokee.agecon.clemson.edu/ls_bud.htm

Livestock Marketing Information Center (USDA)
http://www.lmic.info/

Listing of Nevada Enterprise Budgets
http://unr.edu:80/homepage/myer/fact.html

Managing for Today's Cattle Market and Beyond (36 papers on analyzing a ranch, reducing its costs, marketing options for its products, and the future of the industry)
http://ag.arizona.edu/AREC/WEMC/TodaysCattlePub.html

Morgan's Hay Price Reports
http://www.forage.com/hay/pricereports/index.html

Montana State University

Farm and Ranch Management Decision Support Software (Montana State University)
http://www.montana.edu/wwwextec/software/software.htm

Marketing and Farm Management Information
http://www.montana.edu/wwwextec/MandF/marketin.htm

Nation Ag Risk Education Library (Center for Farm Financial Management, Univ. Minnesota)
http://www.agrisk.umn.edu/

OSU Feed Commodity Bulletin (Current commodity feed prices)
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/exten/feedbull/

Ranch Vision (computer simulation of livestock ranch for planning purposes, on-line manual and ranch management tutorial, Dr's. Richard Brazil and Erin Walsh, DVMs)
http://www.ranchvision.com/

The American Agricultural Law Association
http://www.aglaw-assn.org/

The Livestock Market Advisor for Prairie Beef Producers (Harlan Hughes, North Dakota State U. - Advice and Information on the Economics of Raising and Marketing Beef Cattle)
http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/cow/

Post-retirement materials
http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/cow/new/hhnew.htm

Transferring Your Farm Business to the Next Generation (Ohio State Bulletin 862 - large document)
http://ohioline.ag.ohio-state.edu/b862/index.html

University of Tennessee Department of Agricultural Economics
http://economics.ag.utk.edu/

Software and Spreadsheets
http://economics.ag.utk.edu/soft.html

USDA Economics and Statistics System: REPORTS (NAFTA, ERS projections)
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/reports/

USDA Livestock and Grain Market News Branch
http://www.ams.usda.gov/lsg/mncs/index.htm

UW-Center for Dairy Profitability (University of Wisconsin)
http://cdp.wisc.edu

Viewable/Downloadable Publications (Utah State University)
http://www.ext.usu.edu/agecon/fmpubs.html

Western Integrated Ranch/Farm Education (WIRE) (management course for producers - dated)
http://agecon.uwyo.edu/wire/DEFAULT.HTM

Western Risk Management Library
http://agecon.uwyo.edu/riskmgt/Default.htm

WWW Virtual Library: Agricultural Economics (no longer being maintained)
http://www.aeco.ttu.edu/aecovl/

Nutrition:

Alfalfa Quality Analysis: Definitions (A-331 New Mexico State U)
http://www.cahe.nmsu.edu/pubs/_a/a-331.html

American College of Veterinary Nutrition
http://acvn.vetmed.vt.edu/

BASF Animal Nutrition
http://www.basf.com/businesses/consumer/animalnutrition/index.html

BASF Technical Support - Example documents
http://www.basf.com/businesses/consumer/animalnutrition/html/technical_support.html

A Guide For Farm Feeding Trials
http://www.basf.com/businesses/consumer/animalnutrition/pdf/nn_15.pdf

Physico-chemical Properties of Vitamins, Trace Minerals and Carriers
http://www.basf.com/businesses/consumer/animalnutrition/pdf/kc_9617.pdf

Vitamin E Fortification for Dairy Calves
http://www.basf.com/businesses/consumer/animalnutrition/pdf/kc_9310.pdf

Vitamin E for Dairy Cows: Reproductive Benefits
http://www.basf.com/businesses/consumer/animalnutrition/pdf/ra_912.pdf

Using a Two-Step Vitamin E Supplementation Program During the Prepartum Period for
Dairy Cows
http://www.basf.com/businesses/consumer/animalnutrition/pdf/nn_9701.pdf

Beef Cattle Nutrition Page (includes current feed prices (Missouri))
http://www.missouri.edu/~anscbeef/nutrit.html

Florida Ruminant Nutrition Symposium 

2003 (selected papers below)
http://www.animal.ufl.edu/dairy/2002ruminantconference/

Mineral Supplementation in the Grazing Cow Herd
http://www.animal.ufl.edu/dairy/2002ruminantconference/arthington.pdf

Relative Forage Quality: An Alternative to Relative Feed Value And Quality Index
http://www.animal.ufl.edu/dairy/2002ruminantconference/moore.pdf

What are Feeds Worth?: A Critical Evaluation of Selected Nutritive Value Methods
http://www.animal.ufl.edu/dairy/2002ruminantconference/adesogan.pdf

Forage Quality Tests and Interpretations (U Minn)
http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/livestocksystems/DI2637.html

Forage Preservation and Ruminant Nutrition (Kansas SU)
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/pr_silage/

Forage Resources (variety selection, management, harvesting, economics and budgeting, testing - U Wisconsin)
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/crops/uwforage/uwforage.htm

Alfalfa
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/crops/uwforage/alfalfa.htm

Corn Silage
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/crops/uwforage/Silage.htm

Grazing Management: An Ecological Perspective (on-line textbook)
http://cnrit.tamu.edu/rlem/textbook/textbook-fr.html

Hay sampling protocol
http://www.forage.com/nutrition/articles/1998/an19980112w01.html

VMRI Large Animal Clinical Nutrition Modules (W. Swecker)
http://www.vth.vt.edu/services/largeanimal/clinicalnutrition.asp

Level 1 Module
http://www.vth.vt.edu/services/largeanimal/clinicalnutrition/level1.asp

Level 2 Module
http://www.vth.vt.edu/services/largeanimal/clinicalnutrition/level2.asp

Large Animal Clinical Nutrition References
http://www.vth.vt.edu/services/largeanimal/clinicalnutrition/references.asp

Michael Galyean homepage (Texas Tech - Excel nutrition spreadsheets)
http://www.asft.ttu.edu/home/mgalyean/

Monsanto (Posilac - bovine somatotropin rBST)
http://www.monsanto.com/dairy/

MoorMan's Incorporated (Note "Feedfacts" newsletters)
http://www.moormans.com/

National Academy Press (on-line NRC Nutrient Requirements - National Science Foundation)
http://www.nap.edu/index.html

Metabolic Modifiers: Effects on the Nutrient Requirements of Food-Producing Animals (1994)
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309049970/html/

Nutrient Requirements of Beef Cattle: Seventh Revised Edition: Update 2000 (2000)
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309069343/html/

Nutrient Requirements of Dairy Cattle: Seventh Revised Edition, 2001 (2001)
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309069971/html/

Nutrient Requirements of Sheep, Sixth Revised Edition, 1985
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309035961/html/index.html

Nutrient Requirements of Swine: 10th Revised Edition
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309059933/html/index.html

Ruminant Nitrogen Usage (1985)
http://www.nap.edu/books/030903597X/html/

Pioneer Hi-Bred
http://www.pioneer.com/index.asp

Research and Technology (impressive on silage!)

Coping with Catastrophic Ensiled Forage Losses
http://www.pioneer.com/usa/nutrition/ensiled_forage_losses_99.htm

Corn Silage - Managing and Feeding the "TMR Plant"
http://www.pioneer.com/usa/nutrition/wpcs1.htm

Dairy Cow Nutritional Guidelines - Part 1
http://www.pioneer.com/usa/nutrition/vettext1.htm

Dairy Production Management - Silage Management
http://www.pioneer.com/usa/nutrition/dpm.htm

Troubleshooting Silage Problems
http://www.pioneer.com/usa/nutrition/trouble.htm

Roche Vitamins Inc. Nutrifacts
http://www.nutrafacts.com/index.html

University of Wisconsin Dairy Science Spreadsheets (FeedVal, Pricer, ...)
http://www.wisc.edu/dysci/uwex/nutritn/spreadsheets/sprds.htm

University of Wisconsin Forage Research and Extension (Undersander)
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/forage/

Forage Resource Decision Software
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/crops/uwforage/dec_soft.htm

Relative Forage Quality (RFQ): Indexing Legumes and Grasses for Forage Quality (Undersander, U Wisc, Moore, U Florida)
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/forage/pubs/rfq.htm

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Other Important Internet Resources:

Ag BioTech InfoNet
http://www.biotech-info.net/

AgricultureLaw.Com (McLeod, Watkinson & Miller law firm)
http://www.AgricultureLaw.com/

Big Dave's Cow Page (cow clip art, humor, songs, poetry)
http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~dschmi1/links/cow.html

CDC Epidemiology Program Office Epi Info Page (Source of current version of Epi-Info for downloading)
http://www.cdc.gov/epo/epi/epiinfo.htm

Cornell Consultant: A Diagnostic Support System for Veterinary Medicine (Dr. M E White; A unique resource to establish differentials and to identify current papers on a disease – a must link!)
http://www.vet.cornell.edu/consultant/consult.asp

Cornell Mann Library Gateway (database link to on-line resources in many areas)
http://www.mannlib.cornell.edu/

Dairy Cattle Software Directory    (Dr. Mark Varner)
http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/CompRes/H+S/Software/Educational/Dairy/

Free MEDLINE: PubMed and Internet Grateful Med (The National Library of Medicine literature database including abstracts from most but not all veterinary journals, published since the late 1960's).
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/freemedl.html

FDA Approved Animal Drug Data Base (searchable by animal type, route, drug)
http://dil.vetmed.vt.edu/

Literature Citations to New York Times Articles (Lyman Maynard Stowe Library - Identity of the primary scientific literature behind the lay press articles)
http://library.uchc.edu/bhn/

Medical Matrix Medline Access (Information access for medicine)
http://www.medmatrix.org/info/medlinetable.asp

Medscape     (Excellent - contains information for clinical medicine including a library of full text papers from medical journals that can be located through a search function - free but requires login and password)
http://www.medscape.com/

National Academy Press Bookstore (source of NRC livestock nutrient requirement guides)
http://www.nap.edu/

NOAH – Network of Animal Health (AVMA)
http://www.avma.org/network.html

Nobl University (Includes a guide to conducting on-farm sampling and clinical trials for swine)
http://www.nobl.com/research.htm
http://www.bi-nobl.com/research.htm

The Policy Community On-line (government policy at all levels by all parties)
http://www.policy.com/sitemap.html

Software:

Graze (Beef-Forage Grazing Model - University of Florida)
http://www.agen.ufl.edu/graze.html

Spartan Dairy Ration Evaluator / Balancer Web-site
http://www.msu.edu/~ssl/index.htm

SPUR2 (Grassland Ecosystem Model)
http://www.gpsr.colostate.edu/GPSR/products/spur2.htm

The Veterinary Information Network (VIN)
http://www.vin.com/

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Personnel Management and Training

Veterinarians are increasingly involved in employee training and supervision, particularly on larger enterprises in  the dairy, feedlot and swine industry. In many cases, the success of veterinary programs on these large operations depends upon the successful training and motivation of the employees involved in the specialized aspects of these operations that have major impacts on animal health, such as calf raising, milking time hygiene, fresh cow management and feedlot treatment.

Agricultural Personnel Management Program (APMP)
http://are.Berkeley.edu/APMP
http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/ucce50/7grisha.htm

The Milking School (Clell Bagley, Utah State)
http://ext.usu.edu/ag/mschool/

Total Quality Management - TQM (Deming):

Deming's Principles of Total Quality Management
http://www.well.com/user/vamead/demingdist.html

The Deming Web Site (Clemson University)
http://deming.eng.clemson.edu/pub/den/deming_map.htm

Using Quality Management to Organize Labor and Work (Dr. Bill Sishco, now of UC Davis VMTRC, Tulare)
http://www-das.cas.psu.edu/users/dairymap/publication/dadmc97/paper5.htm

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Producer-oriented Web Publications: (many require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader plugin to read)

DHI PROFIT TEMPLATE (J Faust, R Knapp)
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/AgrEnv/ndd/dairy/DHI_PROFIT_TEMPLATE.html

Health Management of Newly-Arrived Beef Cattle into a Backgrounding/Stocker Operation
http://hammock.ifas.ufl.edu/txt/fairs/21841

Reference Guide for Texas Ranchers (Allan McGinty, Texas Natural Resources Web - beef )
http://texnat.tamu.edu/ranchref/guide/index.htm

Temple Grandin (CSU Livestock Facility and Stockmanship Consultant)
http://grandin.com/ (Choose "Design of stockyards, .. ., corrals, . . ., chutes, . . .")

Behavioral Principles of Livestock Handling, Animal Behavior and the Design of Livestock and Poultry Systems, Cattle Behavior During Handling and Corral Design for Ranches

http://www.msue.msu.edu/msue/imp/modaa/masteraa.html, (Choose "H" for Handling then "Cattle Behavior During Handling")

TEXVAC: Texas Value Added Calf (Preconditioning - Randall Grooms)
http://agweb.tamu.edu/aginfo/infotech/an_sci/TEXVAC.HTM

United States National Dairy Database (University of Maryland. This is a huge repository of information, which has also been put on CD-ROMS))
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/AgrEnv/ndd/

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Producer's and Agricultural Animal Veterinarian's Web-sites:

To limit the size of this category, I would like to include those sites that have important "value-added" information for this target audience but not those that are primarily for marketing products or that are primarily for introduction to the web community. Nominations to jmgay@vetmed.wsu.edu are welcome.

acornembryo (Dr. Jon E. Higgins)
http://www.acornemb.com/

CowDoc.net (Lameness - Greenough, Bergsten)
http://www.cowdoc.net/

Owenlea Holsteins, Homerville, Ohio
http://www.bright.net/~fwo/index.html

Stouder Holsteins (Idaho, 1996 Protiva Herd Management Award Winner; Bill is a DVM)
http://www.northrim.net/stouder/

VanWagner Dairy, Florida Fresh Milk Producer    (also links to other producers)
http://www.atlantic.net/~vwd/

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Professional and Trade Association Web-sites:

Academy of Veterinary Consultants
http://gpvec.unl.edu/avc/default.htm

Alberta Cattle Feeders' Association
http://cattlefeeder.ab.ca/

American Association of Bovine Practitioners
http://www.aabp.org/

American Association of Swine Practitioners
http://www.aasp.org/

American Crop Protection Association (Represents companies that sell crop protection chemicals - extensive materials)
http://www.acpa.org/

American Dairy Science Association
http://www.adsa.uiuc.edu/

American Farm Bureau - Voice of Agriculture
http://www.fb.com/

American Society of Animal Science
http://www.asas.uiuc.edu/

ASAE - The Society for engineering in agriculture, food, and biological systems
http://asae.org

AVMA On-line
http://www.avma.org/default.htm

Professional Resources (e.g., rabies compendium, AMDUCA, Veterinary Feed Directive)
http://www.avma.org/resources/default.asp

Cattlemen on the Hill (NCBA judicial, regulatory and legislative activity website)
http://www.beef.org/

International Veterinary Information Service
http://www.ivis.org/home.asp

International Dairy Foods Association (product side of the dairy industry)
http://www.idfa.org/

Livestock Conservation Institute
http://www.lcionline.org/

National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA)
http://www.beef.org/

National Dairy Board, United Dairy Industry Association
http://www.dairyinfo.com

National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
http://www.nfid.org/

National Livestock Producers
http://www.nlpa.org/nlpahome.htm

National Milk Producer's Federation
http://www.nmpf.org/

National Pork Producer's Council
http://www.nppc.org/

Professional Dairy Heifer Growers Association
http://www.pdhga.org/

Society for Veterinary Medical Ethics
http://web.utk.edu/~ilsmith/SVME.html

The American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (includes meeting abstracts)
http://www.aavld.org/

The International Dairy Federation (promotes scientific, technical and economic progress of dairying through meetings such as the International Dairy Congress, publications and promotion of technical standards for milk composition and quality)
http://www.fil-idf.org/

United States Animal Health Association (the primary group where most livestock health and associated public policy issues are debated and established at an annual meeting held in conjunction with AAVLD, the diagnostic laboratory veterinarians. USAHA has 33 committees established around major diseases and issues of interest. Members include commodity group representatives, state and federal regulatory veterinarians, and academic researchers. The site now includes the proceedings of the annual meeting.)
http://www.usaha.org/index.html

Washington Cattlemen's Association
http://www.washingtoncattlemen.org/

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Sites or Issues Generally Unfavorable to Conventional Livestock Agriculture:

This category is present because I believe that it is important for the agricultural community to be familiar with those issues and the perspectives of those in society whose actions may be perceived as negatively impacting members of the agricultural community, particularly if a general social shift occurs.

 

ABA Special Committee on Agricultural Management (American Bar Association - legal challenges in food production vs. environmental concerns)
http://www.abanet.org/sonreel/agriculture/home.html

Animal Rights Resource Site: Your Connection to the Animal Rights Movement
http://arrs.envirolink.org/

Organizations and Resources on the Web
http://arrs.envirolink.org/organizations/

Other Interesting Animal Rights WWW Sites (extensive list)
http://arrs.envirolink.org/organizations/arsites.html

Reference Materials
http://arrs.envirolink.org/Faqs+Ref/

The Milk Marketing Fraud
http://arrs.envirolink.org/ar-voices/Milk_fraud.html

BGH Bulletin: News of Florida Lawsuit Charging Media Coverup of Suspected Dairy Danger
http://www.foxbghsuit.com/

Center for Consumer Freedom (counter to activists)
http://www.consumerfreedom.com/

ActivistCash.Com (watchdog of activist groups)
http://www.activistcash.com/

Center for Media & Democracy    (BSE book and links)
http://www.prwatch.org/

Center for Science in the Public Interest
http://www.cspinet.org/

Compassion in World Farming: Campaigning against Cruelty
http://www.ciwf.co.uk/

Compassion Over Killing (vegan, anti-fur, anti-zoo)
http://www.cok-online.org/

Crohn's Disease

Crohn’s Disease – Is There a Microbial Etiology? Recommendations for a Research Agenda (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/dmid/crohns.htm

Does Mycobacterium paratuberculosis cause Crohn's disease? (extensive site by Crohns victim Alan Kennedy)
http://ireland.iol.ie/~alank/CROHNS/welcome.htm
http://www.iol.ie/~alank/CROHNS/welcome.htm

Paratuberculosis Awareness & Research Association
http://www.crohns.org/

Paratuberculosis Aggressive Research Association (site by parent of a child with Crohns)
http://members.aol.com/paratbweb/index.htm

Emagazine.com: A service of E/The Environmental Magazine
http://www.emagazine.com/

EnviroLink, the largest online environmental information resource on the planet
http://www.envirolink.org/

FARM: Farm Animal Reform Movement (advocating a plant-based diet and rights for farmed animals)
http://www.farmusa.org/

Faces of Agriculture (Trent Loos)
http://www.facesofag.com/

Farmed Animal Net (sponsored by Animal Place, the Animal Welfare Institute, Animal Welfare Trust, Farm Sanctuary, The Fund for Animals, The Glaser Progress Foundation, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)
http://www.farmedanimal.net/

Foundation E.A.R.T.H.
http://earthonline.org/

The Great American Meatout (America's largest grassroots diet education campaign)
http://www.meatout.org/

International Vegetarian Union
http://www.ivu.org/english.html

Articles Index - Meat, Fish, Fowl
http://www.ivu.org/articles/meat.html

McSPOTLIGHT (Campaign against McDonald's)
http://www.mcspotlight.org/

Meatstinks (PETA)
http://www.meatstinks.com/rfact4.html

Milk is bad for you (L Shark)
http://www.waste.org/~lanshark/vegan/milk.html

National Resources Conservation Service
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/

Agriculture & the Environment
http://www.nhq.nrcs.usda.gov/land/env/intro.html

North American Vegetarian Society
http://www.cyberveg.org/navs/

Not Milk (formerly AntiDairy Coalition, Robert Cohen, Executive Director)
http://www.notmilk.com/

The Independent Agrochemical Observer (Includes extensive BSE materials)
http://inet.uni-c.dk/~iaotb/ (dead link)

The No Milk Page (D Wiss)
http://www.panix.com/~nomilk/

PETA-Online (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - SourceWatch)
http://www.peta-online.org/

Jesus was a Vegetarian
http://www.jesusveg.com/

TaxMeat
http://www.taxmeat.com/

Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine (ND Barnard, MD Vegetarian orientation) (SourceWatch PRCRM SourceWatch Barnard)
http://www.pcrm.org/

What's Wrong with Dairy Products