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Add new crops to your rotation or learn how you can successfully adopt sustainable farming techniques or organic production methods for your field crops.

Field Crops
National Center for Appropriate Technology. ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service.
Production and marketing information for specialty grains and organic techniques for conventional grain.

List of Alternative Crops and Enterprises for Small Farm Diversification
USDA. NAL. Alternative Farming Systems Information Center.
Lists specialty food grain, legume, feed, forage, fiber, fuel and oil crops with links to Extension sources that help evaluate and start non-conventional farming enterprises.

Alternative Field Crops Manual
University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension Service.
Provides information for more than 40 alternative field crops, such as crambe, flax, and kenaf.

Commodities and Products: Grains and Oilseeds
Agricultural Marketing Resource Center.
Compiled marketing and business information for a variety of cereal and industrial and food oil crops.

Oregon Grain and Seed Crops Multimedia Resource
Oregon State University. Crop and Soil Science.
Seed pictures and information for Oregon and the United States for grasses, small grains and legumes with a quiz on for each type of crop.

Thomas Jefferson Agricultural Institute
Thomas Jefferson Agricultural Institute.
Crop production guides and budgets are available for amaranth, buckwheat, canola, cowpea, flax, dry bean, mung bean, pearl millet, sesame and sunflower.

Organic Field Crop Production and Marketing in North Carolina: Alternative Grain Crops
North Carolina State University.
Covers sunflower seed, buckwheat, triticale, grain sorghum or milo, cover crop seed, food-grade soybeans, spelt and blue corn.

Opportunities to Explore Alternative Field Crops
University of Wisconsin. Cooperative Extension Service.
Lists of trade associations, supplier and market sources, crop experts and informative publications and Web sites for a wide variety of field crops.

Ohio Agronomy Guide
Ohio State University. Cooperative Extension Service.
In this 14th edition, Chapter 6: Small Grain Production and Chapter 10: Alternative Crops are of particular use for those interested in specialty grains.

Interactive Agronomy Handbook
University of Illinois. Department of Crop Sciences.
The 23rd version of the Illinois Agronomy Handbook, now online, is available by chapter as PDF files with supplemental links to other online information. Specialty crop information is included in Chapter 4 - Small Grains, Chapter 5 - Grain Sorghum, and Chapter 7 - Alternate Crops.

Special Field Crops
Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development.
Basic information for and photographs of aromatic, culinary, feed, grain, pulse and oilseed crops.

Grain Crops Website
Auburn University. Alabama Cooperative Extension System.
Information on small grain crops grown in Alabama including variety reports and Extension publications.

Lost Crops of Africa: Volume I: Grains
National Academies Press.
This work stresses the need to collect and preserve indigenous African grains, seeds and grasses to protect against their loss. Varieties discussed are African rice, finger and pearl millet, fonio, emmer, Ethiopian oats and barley, sorghum for several types of uses, tef, other cultivated grains and wild grains. The conditions and requirements for growing and harvesting, nutritional quality, food use and production challenges of these grains are covered.

Farmers Guide and Resource to Quality Small Grains Production
Michael Fields Agricultural Institute.
A planning document that covers production requirements, marketing strategies, a sample production log, small grain crop rotations and cutting chemical inputs with cover crops.

Crops Publications
University of Missouri. Cooperative Extension Service.
A collection of Extension publications on corn, cotton, forages, grains, soybeans and weed control for these crops.

Online Newsletters for Field Crop Growers
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.
A collection of links to online newsletters on field crop production topics.

Last Modified: Sep 19, 2008


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