Hello, and thanks for checking out my blog. My name is Alex Tiller and I am fascinated by agriculture and farming. I grew up in rural Ohio and spent many summers working on farms when I was younger. My family still owns farmland in the area. I visit lots of farms in different areas that grow all kinds of different crops and I share what I find with the world via this blog. You can contact me directly via my email link at: http://www.alextiller.com

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Alex Tiller's Blog on Agriculture & Farming

July 21

Other Agriculture & Farm Blogs

I’ve been reading a lot of good agriculture and farm blogs and I wanted to share with you some of the interesting sites I’ve found lately.

The Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog is pretty self-descriptive! It’s rather science-oriented and has a lot of deep material about the varieties of plants and animal species that we use in agriculture. (very global perspective) He posts a lot, too, so it’s always a source of new information.

It’s always a good idea to keep track of what the politicians are up; this politician happens to be over in Europe. Mariann Fischer Boel is an agricultural commissioner for the European Union (not a small title) and she maintains a pretty good blog about her work on the commission. Useful to know what they’re thinking over there, since our political elites usually end up echoing European ideas.

On a lighter note, the AgriMissouri Showcase blog highlights the agriculture business in Missouri among other topics; this one is more oriented to the farm lifestyle than to technical material but still an interesting and amusing read…and the recipes make me hungry.

At the opposite end of the spectrum, the Agriculture Resources site is a constantly-updated source of hard technical data for farmers and agronomists in general; if you have research to do, this is the place to start.

Small farmers often seem to get lost in the crossfire; not at Small Farm Central, though, a resource site and blog aimed at the smallholder. Great information, marketing suggestions, and all kinds of tips.

Looking at the big picture of international farming and how farming ties into economic development? The International Agriculture and Development blog is a great read, with some seriously heavy hitters on the writing staff.

Mulch presents agricultural information from an environmentalist perspective. I don’t always agree with what they have to say but they usually make the “Green” case as convincingly as it can be made.

Finally, the Tiny Farm Blog is a sweet look at organic farming on just two acres (!) - a lot of first-hand information on doing labor-intensive organic farming that’s worth a look if you’re thinking of going in that direction.

Wanna see some more blogs I’ve visited and read in the last few months? I can’t write a full description for each, but here is a list:

http://abovecapricorn.blogspot.com/

http://agdes.blogspot.com/

http://agriconenergy.blogspot.com/

http://agriearth.com/

http://agripinoy.net/

http://agweb.com/Blogs/Default.aspx

http://agwired.com/

http://biofuelsandclimate.wordpress.com/

http://blog.syracuse.com/farms

http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/fischer-boel/

http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/