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These links are a subset of Agronomic Links Around
the Globe, a collection of agronomic links organized by international,
national and state
categories, and maintained by R.L.
(Bob) Nielsen, Dept. of Agronomy,
Purdue University, West Lafayette,
IN 47907-2054. Comments can be emailed to rnielsen@purdue.edu.
Note: No endorsement nor promotion
of the linked sites is intended by the author or Purdue University.
- AgriBiz
- organizes information and resources available on the Internet,
specific to the global agricultural trading community. The site is organized
into three main sections: Articles and Trade News, Markets and Analysis, and
Search and Research.
- The American
Corn Growers Association
- claims to be America's leading progressive commodity
association, representing the interests of corn producers in 28 states.
- American Farm
Bureau Federation Voice of Agriculture
- The American Soybean Association
- is a national, not-for-profit, nonpartisan, volunteer,
farmer-controlled commodity organization with 29,000 producer members that
works to strengthen soybeans as an economically and environmentally sound
cropping opportunity in the best interest of soybean growers and the public.
ASA has affiliated offices in 29 states, and international offices in 12
foreign countries.
- American Seed
Trade Association
- is an organization formed and directed by its seed industry
members as an effective voice of action in all matters concerning the
development, marketing and free movement of seed, associated products and
services throughout the world with a minimum of regulations affecting its
members.
- The American Sugar Alliance
- is a national trade association that represents and supports
the domestic sugarbeet, sugarcane, and corn sweetener growers and
processors.
- The American Sugarbeet Growers Association (ASGA)
- The purpose of the organization is to unite the sugarbeet
growers in the United States and promote the common interests of its members,
which include legislative and international representation and public
relations. ASGA represents over 12,000 sugarbeet farmers in 13 states.
- The Corn
Refiners Association, Inc.
- is based in Washington, D.C. and is the national trade
association representing the corn refining (wet milling) industry of the United
States. The association, and its predecessors, have served this important
segment of American agribusiness since 1913.
- Chicago Board
of Trade
- Chicago
Mercantile Exchange
- The Merc, at 30 South Wacker Drive in Chicago, is the world's
largest financial exchange, an international marketplace enabling institutions
and businesses to manage their financial risk and allocate their assets.
Futures and options contracts traded on the CME's two state-of-the-art trading
floors include currencies, interest rates, stock indices and agricultural
commodities.
- CropLife
America
- "CropLife America represents the developers, manufacturers,
formulators and distributors of plant science solutions for agriculture and
pest management in the United States. CropLife America member companies
produce, sell and distribute virtually all the crop protection and
biotechnology products used by American farmers."
- Grazing Lands
Conservation Initiative
- The Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative's (GLCI) mission is
to provide high quality technical assistance on privately owned grazing lands
on a voluntary basis and to increase the awareness of the importance of grazing
land resources.
- Independent Professional
Seedsmen Association
- "Currently, IPSA has 140 Members and 120 Associate Members. Our
members represent 12+ million units of retail soybean sales and 4.5+ million
units of retail hybrid corn sales, annually. In addition we represent a
significant market share of wheat, forages, pasture grasses, oats, alfalfa,
specialty grains, and turf."
- Kansas City
Board of Trade
- The world's predominant marketplace for hard red winter wheat,
the major ingredient in the world's bread for more than 100 years.
- The Minneapolis
Grain Exchange
- boasts the only authorized market for Hard Red Spring Wheat and
White Wheat Futures and Options, trading an average of ten million bushels
daily. It is also the largest cash exchange market in the world, trading a
daily average of one million bushels of grain including wheat, barley, oats,
durum, rye, sunflower seeds, flax, corn, soybeans, millet, and milo. In
addition, the Minneapolis Grain Exchange is the world's only seafood complex.
In July 1993, the Exchange introduced and began trading the White Shrimp
futures and options contract and added the Black Tiger Shrimp contract in
November 1994.
- Minnesota Certified Seed Potato Growers
Association
- This website contains the variety directory for MN Certified
Seed Potatoes, seed potato growers, and ag-related sites of interest.
- National
Association of Wheat Growers
- dedicated to growth and profitability of all segments of the
Wheat Industry based on creation of expert knowledge, processed from global
information systems, resulting in producers being fully engaged in the wheat
chain, producing and marketing a versatile product and being the global
supplier of first choice of wheat based products.
- The National
Cattlemen's Beef Association
- This web site is designed for farmers, ranchers and other
agricultural professionals who are interested in finding cattle industry
reference information.
- National Contract Poultry Growers Association
- dedicated to improving the social and economic wellbeing of
contract poultry producers and their families.
- National Corn
Growers Association
- The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) is the trade
organization in the U.S. that represents American corn growers. Nearly 30,000
corn growers from 47 states belong to the NCGA. A total of 25 state corn grower
associations and 16 state corn boards, councils, and commissions are affiliated
with the NCGA making it the voice for growers of America's top crop.
- National Grain
and Feed Association
- The non-profit national trade association of 1,000 member
companies that include grain elevators; merchandisers; feed and flour millers;
corn and soybean processors; and related commercial businesses.
- National Grain
Sorghum Producers Association
- National Pork
Producers Council
- National
Sunflower Association
- "The National Sunflower Association (NSA) is a non-profit
commodity organization working on problems and opportunities for the
improvement of all members. Membership in the NSA includes growers and the
support industry. "
- The Popcorn
Institute
- The Popcorn Institute is a trade association of processors of
popcorn. The Institute is dedicated to improving the quality of popcorn and
making consumers aware of its many qualities.
- Snack Food
Association
- The United Soybean Board
- is a 60 member, farmer-run organization, established through
enabling legislation contained in the 1990 Farm Bill to administer soybean
checkoff funds. The USB mission is to create an environment within which the
U.S. soybean producers can maximize profits.
- USA Rice
Federation
- U.S. Cotton
Home Page
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- The U.S. Feed
Grains Council
- is a nonprofit organization that develops export markets for
U.S. corn, grain sorghum, barley and their related products.
- Wheat
Food Council Grain Information Nutrition Center
- The Wheat Foods Council is a national nonprofit organization
formed to help increase awareness of dietary grains as an essential component
to a healthy diet.
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