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Advice on Publications Available.www.fb.u-tokai.ac.jp/pp-info/p-eco. html
Links to Agricultural Economics and Trade in Japan, including Economics and Management, Market, Agri-Business, Buying and Selling of Farm Products (mostly Japanese), Materials for Cultivation and Seeds and Seedlings.
www.nal.usda.gov/atmic/calender. htm
Calendar of agricultural trade shows, meeting, conferences and marketing information
www.expoguide.com/shows/shows. htm
Trade shows, conferences and exhibitions
www.expoguide.com/shows/data/
Expo guide
www.fas.usda.gov/agexport/shows/ tshow.html
Trade shows
www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/
Alternative Farming Systems Information Center
www.agribiz.com/agInfo/seaGen. html
Internet search engines
www.agribiz.com/agInfo/research. html
Access to a range of agricultural search engines associated with markets and agricultural market statistics such as:
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US Economic Research Service |
www.chatlink.com/~herbseed/Welcome.htm
Horizon Herbs; short notes on medicinal herbs
www.datafresh.com.au
Daily and historical produce price information from the Melbourne markets, subscriptions for services available from:
http://www.datafresh.com.au/dfsubfor.htm
www.aitcom.com/newsgroups/EXOTIC_SEEDS.htm
Exotic seeds newsgroup
http://gnome.agrenv.mcgill.ca/breeding
Plant breeding course at McGill University; including breeding of daylily, canola, cannabis, chocolate tree, Hevea brasiliensis etc.
www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/NebFacst/nf92-107.htm
A resource list for marketing alternative crops; includes the NRAES publications included in the publications list in this issue, plus many other similar publications from other areas in the US.
www.bootstraps.com/
Guides to starting herb and flower growing businesses, from the US
w3.aces.uiuc.edu/AgLinks.Html
Agricultural and business links, world-wide
www-agecon.ag.ohio-state.edu/agrisk/agrisk.htm
Agrisk: an innovative decision support package for agricultural risk management designed to assist corn, soybean and wheat farmers in the US to manage harvest time revenue risk using futures, forward, options and crop insurance contracts.
herb.com/herbal.htm
Herbal Hall: herbal information
www.agnic.nal.usda.gov/
Agriculture Network Information Centre home page
www.agnic.nal.usda.gov/agdb/
AgDB is a database directory of quality agriculture-related databases, datasets and information systems: links to more than 800 information resources.
etcs.ext.missouri.edu/agebb/mac/
Missouri Alternatives Center: Extension information on alternatives; Ag Opportunities Newsletter and past issues; links to Missouri Sustainable Ag Program and Small Family Farm Program
etcs.ext.missouri.edu/agebb/agopp/herb.htm
Medicinal herbs are popular, but are they profitable?
www.ext.missouri.edu/agebb/agopp/arc/agopp.016
Cooperative marketing opportunities (Missouri, USA)
www.ext.missouri.edu/agebb/ agopp/arc/agopp.008
Value-added agriculture
www.ext.missouri.edu/agebb/agopp/arc/agopp.007
Choosing your enterprises: a check list
www.ext.missouri.edu/agebb/agopp/arc/agopv5n1.txt
Creating market niches through new product development
www.croplink.co.nz/index.html
CropLink (NZ) Ltd: information related to New Zealand floriculture, with an emphasis on recently developed crops: production statistics, market information and prices, risk analysis for growers, varieties, cultural techniques and gross margins.
www.qld.gov.au/BushTel/html/view.cgi/47.1998-04/grant.txt
A grant has been made by the Queensland Department of Tourism, Small Business and Industry to MediHerb, in Warwick to carry out a feasibility study into the international opportunities for its new herbal concentrate technology. The technology enables the production of a powder from liquid herbal extracts, for use in capsules and tablets. TSBI can be contacted on 13 26 50.
www.tamuk.edu/webuser/cactus
Home page for new crop cactus (for forage, fruits, vegetable nopalito and medicine.
www.tamuk.edu/webuser/symposium
Proceedings of a Prosopis conference (role of fertility, land stabilization, and sand dune movement; role of Prosopis in the gender/fuelwood/land-tenure complex; human food and forage uses of Prosopis pods; management of native stands and genetic improvement; management of Prosopis for higher value products and country and regional case studies book)
www.qldnet.com.au/acs/hort
The Australian Correspondence Schools' training in horticulture
home.braunschweig.netsurf. de/~andree.wolf/
Castanha (Bertholletia excelsa), Cupuaçu (Theobroma grandiflorum), Pupunha (Bactris gasipaes), Urucum (Bixa orellana), Other species (Pueraria phaseoloides, Manihot eculenta, Clidemia hirta, Cecropia uleia, Cecropia concolor, Vismia guianensis, Vismia cayanensis)
http://www.-unix.oit.umass.edu/~herbdig/index.html
The Herb, Spice and Medicinal Plant Digest, University of Massachusetts Cooperative Extension System
www.fungi.com
List of books on mushroom growing
paridss.usask.ca/specialcrop/ index.html
Special crops (herbs and spices, organic crops, pollinators, specialized oilseeds, forage seeds, new pulses and established specialty crops where major constraints require resolution)
www.agr.gov.sk.ca/saf/afif/spcrops.htm
Strategic overview of the Saskatchewan special crops program
agrss.sherman.hawaii.edu/hort/Seedlab.html
Seed program, Department of Horticulture, University of Hawaii
www.umich.edu/~oseh/fdilapp6.html
Illnesses attributed to foods; a classification by symptoms, incubation periods and types of agents.
www.mdx.ac.uk/www/pharm/
phytopharmacognosy internet discussion group
www.capeconnection.co.za/enviro/flora/botsoc.html
The Botanical Society of South Africa
edge.net/~nature/
Information about growing herbs commercially
www.fnii.ifis.org/
Food and Nutrition Internet Index; requiring subscription to access all information
members.aol.com/somanath/fragrant.html
Essential oils of India
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