Θ Science: Agriculture: Databases

Site list:

National Agricultural Library (NAL) One of four National Libraries in the US, offers search facilities and gateways to agricultural information.
Southwest Biotechnology and Informatics Center Established to provide a single-point access to a vast store of widely distributed biotechnology data. Information resources for agricultural, pharmaceutical, and other fields of biotechnology.
World Agricultural Information Centre (WAICENT) Information management and dissemination on desertification, gender and sustainable development, food standards, animal genetic resources, post-harvest operations, agro-biodiversity and food systems in urban centres.
System-wide Information Network for Genetic Resources SINGER, the CGIAR system-wide information network for genetic resources of crop, forage and tree germplasm.
CSU Seed Database Crop, common weed, and noxious weed seed database displaying seed photos and seed identification characteristics.
AGORA Allows for searching journal titles and with login, full text articles. In Arabic, English, French and Spanish. Sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. All users may browse journal abstracts without login.
Agricultural Outlook Yearbook, 1960-1991 Features tab separated data sets for downloading provided by the US Department of Agriculture.
AGROS: Agricultural Research Directory Contains searchable data descriptions of USDA funded research, including soil, crop and plant, forest, rangeland, and animal sciences. Data provided in the Directory Interchange Format (DIF).
Current Research Information System USDA funded portal offers descriptions of current and completed research projects. Find funding summaries, process charts, salary analysis, and a classification manual.
NARA Research Room: Electronic Records from the Department of Agriculture The National Archives and Records Administration provides access to statistical reports that include crop and cattle inventory estimates. Includes production estimates broken down by state.
NASD: National Ag Safety Database Provides access to information on occupational safety, health and injury prevention. Includes information on chemicals and pesticides in fruit and vegetable crops. Features topical guides, links to related sites, news, and contacts.
NASS: Agricultural Chemical Use Database National Agricultural Statistics Service portal offers search for statistics by year, state and commodity. Features US maps and graphical reports.
Plants for a Future A resource and information centre with detailed information on a large range of edible and other useful plants. Most are from temperate regions.
Agricola Bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators.
Agricultural Information and Documentation System for the Americas A consortium of agricultural libraries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Includes online search systems. [English and Spanish].
FAOStat Online and multilingual databases currently containing over 1 million time-series records covering international agricultural statistics.
Anancy Users can browse over more than 10.000 data sets from all the information collections published by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) in Wageningen / Netherlands.