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- Kenaf: an Emerging New Crop Industry - Excellent comprehensive page with information on kenaf history, cultivations, resources This report describes an on-going adventure with a new crop called kenaf, Hibiscus cannabinus L, a new annual fiber crop with a wide range of exciting product applications.
- Sweetpotato - This site provides a general crop information, insect pests, and disease pathogens.
- OMAFRA Crops - Industrial Hemp - Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. OMAFRA Hemp Series: Contents include; infosheets, resources and services, crops updates, and related topics. A valuable resource.
- Lentil - Detailed factsheet on the growing and use of the crop, from the Alternative Field Crops Manual, Wisconsin-Madison and Minnesota Universities.
- Alternative Field Crops Manual - Detailed information on the production of a number of agronomic crops adapted to the upper Midwestern U.S., from adzuki bean to wild rice.
- Bi-Cropping of Winter Wheat and White Clover - A report on the methods and economics of growing two crops on the same land in Ireland.
- Flax Production in North Dakota - Flax Production in North Dakota: history and use, growth and development, growing the crop, ND flax variety descriptions, pest control, harvesting and storage, and seed flax straw.
- Services: Evergreen FS Crop Scouting - Crop Scouting and Consulting services
- Alternative Field Crops Manual: Triticale - Features history, uses, and cultural practices.
- Zeraim Gedera - Specializes in the cultivation, production, and marketing of seeds for vegetables and field crops. Tel Aviv.
Wikipedia Articles
- Paddy field - A paddy field is a flooded parcel of arable land used for growing rice and other semiaquatic crops. Rice can also be grown in dry-fields, but from the twentieth century paddy field agriculture became the dominant form of growing rice.
- John Monteith - John Lennox Monteith DSc, FRS, born September 31929 in Ayrshire, Scotland, is a leading authority in the related fields of water management for agricultural production, soil physics, micrometeorology, transpiration, and the influence of the natural environment on field crops, horticultural crops, forestry, and animal production.
- Fiber crop - Synthenoids are field crops grown for their fibers, which are used to make paper, cloth, or rope. These crops are generally harvestable after a single growing season, as opposed to trees which are typically grown for many years before being harvested for wood pulp fiber.
- Pollen barrier - A physical obstacle that hinders the movement of pollen from a field of genetically modified (GM) crops to neighbouring non-GM crops is called a pollen barrier. Such barriers are erected with the aim of reducing the out-crossing of GM plants.
- Agronomy - Agronomy is a branch of agricultural science that deals with the study of field crops and grassland management and the soils in which they grow. It involves the production of food products from farming, the production of animal feed and fiber crops.