Ag Resources
Note: Most of these resources have been featured in past issues of the NSAS Newsletter and Update. NSAS does not endorse any of these publications.
For additional web based consumer, sustainable food system and farming resource links, go to our Food Resources page.
Sustainable Farming- Weeds of Nebraska
- Small Farm Resources Project (SFRP)
- Return to Resistance: Breeding Crops to Reduce Pesticide Dependence
- The Soul of Soil: A Guide to Ecological Soil Management
- Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) web site
- Steel in the Field: A Farmer's Guide to Weed Management Tools
- Northern Plains Family Farmer newsletter
Marketing and Community Supported Agriculture
- Proceedings: 1996 North America Farmers' Direct Marketing Conference
- To Till It and Keep It
- The Direct Marketing Resource Notebook
- Making it on the Farm: Increasing Sustainability Through Value-added Processing and Marketing
- The Land Stewardship Congregational Tool Kit
- Our Garden: A Project that Supports our Community and Protects the Land
- Making the Connection
- 2004 Growing Together CSA Conference tapes/CD
- North Central Region SARE - grants applications & grantees' project results & information
- Agriseek (marketplace for wide range of farmer goods, services, supplies)
- Ten Essential Reasons to Protect the Birds and the Bees
- Wildlife Habitat Improvement Guide
- Financing Beginning Farmers: An Evaluation of Farm Service Agency Credit Programs
- Religious Congregations on the Land: Practical Links Between Community, Sustainable Land Use and Spiritual Chasm
- The Chemical Era: 1945-?, Challenge for Human Survival
- Increasing Organic Agriculture at the Local Level: A Manual for Consumers, Grocers, Farmers and Policy Makers
- Nebraska AgrAbility Project
- 57 Ways to Protect Your Home Environment (and Yourself)
- Monitoring Sustainable Agriculture with Conventional Financial Data
- Sustainable Agriculture Directory of Expertise
- 1996 National Organic Directory
- A Garden of Unearthly Delights: Bioengineering and the Future of Food
- Our Stolen Future
- From A to Z in Sustainable Agriculture: A Curriculum Directory for Grades K-12
- Free Environmental Health Information Available
- Save Money with Shelterbelts
- DIG IT!... Shows how to prepare soil more easily
- Synergy Magazine
- National Pesticide Telecommunications Network
- Nebraska's Water, Nebraska's Wealth: Choices and Challenges
- Biological Urban Gardening Services
- The National Wildlife Federation's Guide to Gardening for Wildlife
- The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener
- The Farmer's and Gardener's Resource Catalog
- Vegetable Farmers and their Weed Control Machines
- Directory of Flower and Herb Buyers
- From Asparagus to Zucchini
- The Flower Farmer: An Organic Grower's Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Flowers
- A Gentler Way - Sows on Pasture: Reports from Sustainable Farmers from Minnesota and Iowa
- A Conservation Breeding Handbook
- From the Carcass to the Kitchen: Competition and the Wholesale Meat Market
- Udder $ense: A Search for Low-Cost/Sustainable Strategies of Resourceful Dairy Farmers
- Quality Pasture: How to Create It, Manage It, and Profit From It
- Corporate Hog Operations Videos
- Making Money on Hogs
- American Pastured Poultry Producers Association
- Fit for a Pig
- Dennis Demmel
- John W. Doran
- Charles Francis
- Tom Larson
- Joe Roberts
- Paul Rohrbaugh
- Kevin Seevers
- Charles A. Shapiro
- Tom Tomas
- Dave Vetter
- Dave Welsch
- Gary Young
- Non-chemical Weed Control in Row Crops
- Intensive Grazing
- Organic Vegetable Production
- Sustainable Agriculture and Human Creativity
- Getting Started in Farming
- Drought Proofing Your Farm
- Livestock & Sustainable Agriculture
- Buying Used Farm Equipment
- Low Investment Hog Facilities
- Building Soil Structure with Legumes
- Land Transfer
- Natural Pest Control
- Dairy Grazing
1996 Annual Meeting
- Building Hope in Rural Communities
- Selling Meat Direct to the Consumer
- Organic Gardening
- Growing and Marketing Herbs
- Learning as a Group: IMPACT Project Experiences
- OCIA Certification: More Than a Change in Price
- Successful Alternatives to Chemical Weed Control
- Pesticides and Human Health
- Creative Approaches for Beginning Farmers
- Warm Season Grass and Legume Mixtures
1995 Annual Meeting
- How to Set Up an On-Farm Research Project
- Establishment of Alfalfa Using Nontraditional Cover Crops
- Multiplying Your Harvest Through Mktg.: Value-Added Prod.
- Planting the Seeds for Reform in the 1995 Farm Bill
- Biological Control of Weeds
- Intro. to OCIA: Meeting Organic Certification Standards
- Organic Gardening
- How to Write & Present a Farmer Grant Proposal
- Farmers Markets: Successful Sales & Management
- Maximizing Forage Use in Beef Production
- How to Use Soil Survey Maps
- Community Supported Agriculture
- Grass Fattening of Cattle
- What Farmers Should Do With Their Wastes
- Dealing With the Public-Xmas Trees & Raspberries PYO
- Sustainable Agriculture and Quality of Life
- Rural Recycling
- Low-Cost Farrowing & Feeding of Hogs
- Manure & Compost Management
1993 Annual Meeting
- Farmers are Heroes
- Growing & Marketing Herbs
- Direct Marketing
- Windmills
- Environmental Liability
- Marketing
- Comparing Monocropping & Crop Rotations
1992 Annual Meeting
- Community in Nature and at Home
- Sustainable Agriculture Research at the Land Institute
- Sustainable Living: Using Solar Power
- Ecology & Economics of Field Windbreaks
1991 Annual Meeting