| Directory: | Arts / People / F / Freeman,_Morgan / Downloads |
| Title: | Actor Morgan Freeman Narrates New Public Service Announcements |
| Description: | RealPlayer clips from National Resources Conservation Association. |
| Location: | http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/feature/highlights/freemanpsa.html |
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| Directory: | Business / Agriculture_and_Forestry |
| Title: | Agricultural Marketing Service Farmers Markets |
| Description: | Links to resources and information, an interactive map by states to find local markets, and a kids coloring book. |
| Location: | http://www.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets/ |
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| Directory: | Business / Agriculture_and_Forestry / Cooperatives |
| Title: | U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Business-Cooperative Service |
| Description: | Mission is to promote understanding and use of the cooperative form of business as a viable organizational option for marketing and distributing agricultural products. Includes USDA eForms, a library of publications, industry regulations, and a directory of field offices. |
| Location: | http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/index.html |
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| Directory: | Business / Agriculture_and_Forestry / Horticulture |
| Title: | USDA - Fruit and Vegetable Market Programs |
| Description: | Part of the Agricultural Marketing Service of the USDA. Describes scope, services, committees, and has a selection of links. |
| Location: | http://www.ams.usda.gov/fv/ |
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| Directory: | Business / Agriculture_and_Forestry / Industrial_Hemp |
| Title: | Industrial Hemp in the United States: Status and Market Potential |
| Description: | A January, 2000 report by the United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service. This report is being published only on the internet. |
| Location: | http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/ages001e/ |
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| Directory: | Business / Agriculture_and_Forestry / Livestock / Beekeeping / Pests_and_Diseases |
| Title: | USDA Agricultural Research Service: Colony Collapse Disorder |
| Description: | Discusses the importance of the mysterious bee deaths, theories on its causes, and history of the problem. |
| Location: | http://www.ars.usda.gov/News/docs.htm?docid=15572 |
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| Directory: | Business / Agriculture_and_Forestry / Livestock / Poultry / News_and_Media |
| Title: | AMS Poultry Market News |
| Description: | The supply, demand, and price situation on a US regional, national, and international basis for poultry, poultry products, eggs, and egg products. |
| Location: | http://www.ams.usda.gov/poultry/pymn.htm |
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| Directory: | Business / Agriculture_and_Forestry / Livestock / Sheep / Lamb,_Wool,_and_Sheep_Products |
| Title: | Sheep and Lamb Statistics |
| Description: | USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service Information. The index is designed to assist data users interested in specific aspects of the agricultural estimating program. |
| Location: | http://www.nass.usda.gov/QuickStats/index2.jsp |
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| Directory: | Business / Agriculture_and_Forestry / Livestock / Sheep / Management |
| Title: | National Sheep Industry Improvement Center |
| Description: | An independent agency that assists the U.S. sheep and goat industries through loans and other financial assistance means. |
| Location: | http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/coops/cssheep.htm#backtable |
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| Directory: | Business / Agriculture_and_Forestry / Livestock / Sheep / Management |
| Title: | Assessment of Stress During Handling and Transport |
| Description: | Paper covering some of the factors that influence how an animal may react during handling. |
| Location: | http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/pubs/livestock/lvstgran.htm |
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| Directory: | Business / Agriculture_and_Forestry / Livestock / Sheep / Management |
| Title: | Humane Sheep Handling and Transport Resources |
| Description: | Bibliography and audiovisuals. |
| Location: | http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/pubs/livestock/lvstshee.htm |
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| Directory: | Business / Agriculture_and_Forestry / Marketing_and_Advertising |
| Title: | USDA - Agricultural Marketing Service |
| Description: | Includes six commodity divisions - Cotton, Dairy, Fruit and Vegetable, Livestock and Seed, Poultry, and Tobacco. The divisions employ specialists who provide standardization, grading and market news services for those commodities. |
| Location: | http://www.ams.usda.gov/ |
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| Directory: | Business / Agriculture_and_Forestry / Marketplaces |
| Title: | FASonline |
| Description: | Foreign Agricultural Service of United States Department of Agriculture receives trade leads directly from its overseas offices. |
| Location: | http://www.fas.usda.gov/ |
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| Directory: | Business / Business_Services / Government_Contracting / Resources |
| Title: | Rural Development Online |
| Description: | Provides consultations, assistance and funding opportunities for, individuals and businesses located in rural communities |
| Location: | http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/ |
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| Directory: | Business / Food_and_Related_Products / Dairy / Cooperatives |
| Title: | How Well Are Dairy Cooperatives Performing? |
| Description: | Reviews the financial performance of dairy farmers and their milk marketing cooperatives at the end of the 1990s. |
| Location: | http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/pub/aug00/perform.htm |
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| Directory: | Business / Food_and_Related_Products / Marketing_and_Advertising |
| Title: | ERS/USDA Food Marketing and Price Spreads |
| Description: | Provides data, methodology, and economic analysis of USDA's marketing bill, market basket, and farm-to-retail price spreads for individual foods. |
| Location: | http://www.ers.usda.gov/briefing/foodpricespreads/ |
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| Directory: | Business / Food_and_Related_Products / Sweeteners / Sugar / Agriculture / Beet |
| Title: | USDA-ARS-NPA Sugarbeet Research Unit |
| Description: | Crops Research Laboratory produces basic and applied research to meet the needs of the sugar beet industry and its customers and stakeholders. |
| Location: | http://www.crl.ars.usda.gov/index.html |
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| Directory: | Business / Textiles_and_Nonwovens / Fibers / Natural / Resources |
| Title: | The Cotton Program |
| Description: | Universal classification standards for cotton, developed and distributed by the United States Department for Agriculture. Also, classification and market news for cotton growers and dealers, and the textile industry. |
| Location: | http://www.ams.usda.gov/cotton/ |
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| Directory: | Business / Textiles_and_Nonwovens / Fibers / Natural / Resources |
| Title: | AMS Cotton Market News |
| Description: | Latest market and quality reports. |
| Location: | http://www.ams.usda.gov/cotton/mncs/index.htm |
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| Directory: | Business / Textiles_and_Nonwovens / Fibers / Natural / Resources / Articles_and_Studies / Cotton |
| Title: | Cotton Classification Results |
| Description: | Explanation of High Volume Instrument (HVI) cotton fiber measurements for classification according to color grade, fiber length, micronaire, and strength, and color, trash and length uniformity. From the US Department of Agriculture. |
| Location: | http://www.ams.usda.gov/cotton/understand.htm |
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| Directory: | Business / Textiles_and_Nonwovens / Fibers / Natural / Resources / Organizations |
| Title: | AMS Cotton Division |
| Description: | USA. Division of the Agricultural Marketing Service in the US Department of Agriculture, dedicated to support the orderly and efficient marketing of U.S. cotton, domestically and internationally, by providing unbiased classification and standardization, market news and oversight of the research and promotion program. |
| Location: | http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?template=TemplateA&navID=CommodityAreas&leftNav=CommodityAreas&page=Cotton&description=Cotton |
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| Directory: | Business / Textiles_and_Nonwovens / Fibers / Natural / Resources / Organizations |
| Title: | The Cotton Group |
| Description: | USA. Part of the Cotton, Oilseeds, Tobacco and Seeds Division of the US Department of Agriculture, focused on providing statistical information and analysis on the world cotton situation, support US cotton trade negotiations, and administer USDA cotton export development programs. Cotton statistics and reports. Links to related sites. |
| Location: | http://www.fas.usda.gov/cots/cotton.html |
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| Directory: | Business / Textiles_and_Nonwovens / Fibers / Natural / Resources / Research |
| Title: | Cotton Quality Research Unit |
| Description: | USA. Research facility at the Clemson University, focused on crop improvement, cotton fiber, processing and yarn quality, the development of cotton testing instruments, and cotton related safety and health issues. |
| Location: | http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=66-55-00-00 |
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| Directory: | Business / Textiles_and_Nonwovens / Fibers / Natural / Resources / Research |
| Title: | Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory |
| Description: | USA. Research institution established by the US Department of Agriculture, focused on the study and development of solutions to ginning problems involving irrigated high-quality long and extra-long staple cotton. Description of the ginning process. List of publications. |
| Location: | http://www.swcgrl.ars.usda.gov/ |
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| Directory: | Business / Textiles_and_Nonwovens / Fibers / Natural / Resources / Research |
| Title: | USDA-ARS Cotton Ginning Research Unit |
| Description: | US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service unit, dedicated to discover, develop, and evaluate basic and applied principles useful for storing, conditioning and cleaning seed cotton, separating lint from seed, cleaning and packaging lint, controlling the ginning process; collecting and disposing of byproducts, and reducing air and noise pollution incident to ginning. Detailed description of the principle and workings of a cotton gin. |
| Location: | http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/docs.htm?docid=3379 |
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| Directory: | Business / Textiles_and_Nonwovens / Geotechnical / Resources |
| Title: | Guide for the Use of Geotextiles |
| Description: | Handbook for the use of woven and nonwoven geotextiles, originally published in 1991 by the US Department of Agriculture's Soil Conservation Service. |
| Location: | http://directives.sc.egov.usda.gov/OpenNonWebContent.aspx?content=17538.wba |
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| Directory: | Business / Textiles_and_Nonwovens / Marketing_and_Advertising |
| Title: | USDA Briefing Room - Cotton |
| Description: | USA. The Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service briefing room, analyzing events in the US and international cotton and textile markets that influence supply, demand, prices, and trade. |
| Location: | http://www.ers.usda.gov/briefing/cotton/ |
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| Directory: | Business / Textiles_and_Nonwovens / Resources / Composite_Materials / Articles_and_Studies |
| Title: | Interfacial Structure and Properties of Wood/Polypropylene Composites |
| Description: | Technical paper about the development of thermoplastic composites utilizing lignocellulosic, low quality hardwood fiber as reinforcing component. Authors: Timothy G. Rials and others. |
| Location: | http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/ja/ja_rials001.pdf |
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| Directory: | Business / Textiles_and_Nonwovens / Resources / Management_Resources |
| Title: | Cotton Marketing Services |
| Description: | From the US Department of Agriculture. Coordinated programs for preparing, distributing and encouraging universal cotton classification standards. |
| Location: | http://www.usda.gov/ams/cotton/index.htm |
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| Directory: | Business / Textiles_and_Nonwovens / Resources / Management_Resources / Articles_and_Studies |
| Title: | The Forces Shaping World Cotton Consumption After the Multifiber Arrangement |
| Description: | Outlook Report from the Economic Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture, reviewing the influence of the phaseout of the Multifiber Arrangement (MFA) on the world's cotton and textile markets. Authors: Stephen MacDonald and Thomas Vollrath. |
| Location: | http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/cws/apr05/cws05c01/cws05c01.pdf |
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| Directory: | Business / Textiles_and_Nonwovens / Resources / Management_Resources / Articles_and_Studies |
| Title: | Growth Prospects for India's Cotton and Textile Industries |
| Description: | June 2005 Outlook Report from the US Department of Agriculture, reviewing the prospects for increased demand for cotton and man-made fibers in the Indian textile and apparel industry, due to the growth in production and exports following the removal of quota's related to the Multifiber Arrangement. Authors: Thomas Vollrath and others. |
| Location: | http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/cws/jun05/cws05d01/cws05d01.pdf |
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| Directory: | Health / Animal |
| Title: | USDA: Animal Health |
| Description: | The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service provides information on the health of domestic animals in the United States including an animal health report, disease information, laboratory services and veterinary services. |
| Location: | http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Animal |
| Title: | National Center for Animal Health Surveillance |
| Description: | Provides a gateway to the USDA Animal and Plant Inspection Service departments covering the monitoring and reporting of animal health issues in the US. |
| Location: | http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/ceah/cahm/dxmon.htm |
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| Directory: | Health / Animal |
| Title: | Centers for Epidemiology and Animal Health |
| Description: | CEAH is an organization that aims to produce timely, factual information and knowledge about animal health and improve international disease surveillance. |
| Location: | http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/ceah/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Animal / Birds / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Newcastle_Disease |
| Title: | Exotic Newcastle Disease |
| Description: | Information on this contagious and fatal viral disease of birds, the signs to recognize and how the disease spreads, provided by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of USDA. |
| Location: | http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/birdbiosecurity/END/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Animal / Conditions_and_Diseases / Transmissible_Spongiform_Encephalopathy / Bovine_Spongiform_Encephalopathy |
| Title: | Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy: Mad Cow Disease |
| Description: | Factsheet on this condition from the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service. |
| Location: | http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Fact_Sheets/Bovine_Spongiform_Encephalopathy_Mad_Cow_Disease/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Animal / Conditions_and_Diseases / Transmissible_Spongiform_Encephalopathy / Scrapie |
| Title: | Scrapie Disease |
| Description: | Information on this fatal degenerative disease of sheep and goats from USDA, with short videos of affected animals. |
| Location: | http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/animal_diseases/scrapie/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Animal / Livestock |
| Title: | U.S. State and Territory Animal Import Regulations |
| Description: | Features animal movement regulations for each US state and national animal import and export regulations for many countries. |
| Location: | http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/sregs/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Animal / Livestock |
| Title: | Plum Island Animal Disease Center, USDA |
| Description: | US laboratory for foreign animal diseases. Mission, research, news, safety, environment and history. New York. |
| Location: | http://www.ars.usda.gov/plum/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Animal / Livestock / Conditions_and_Diseases / Johne_s_Disease |
| Title: | USDA-APHIS-VS: Johne's Disease |
| Description: | Factsheet with cause, symptoms, prevention strategies, and economic impact. |
| Location: | http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/animal_diseases/johnes/index.shtml |
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| Directory: | Health / Animal / Mammals / Dogs / Nutrition |
| Title: | US Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) - Nutrient Database for Standard Reference |
| Description: | Interface allows simple searches for food ingredients by entering keywords or the Nutrient Database Number. |
| Location: | http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Animal / Mammals / Rabbits / Conditions_and_Diseases / Rabbit_Calicivirus_Disease |
| Title: | Rabbit Calicivirus Disease |
| Description: | The latest and most accurate information from the USDA on Rabbit Calicivirus Disease (RCD), which is also called Viral Hemorrhagic Disease (VHD). |
| Location: | http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/ceah/cei/taf/iw_2000_files/domestic/rabbitcal.htm |
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| Directory: | Health / Animal / Mammals / Sheep |
| Title: | NAHMS Sheep Reports |
| Description: | A collection of written reports on the Sheep '95 study conducted by NAHMS. |
| Location: | http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/ceah/cahm/Sheep/sheep.htm |
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| Directory: | Health / Animal / Mammals / Swine / Conditions_and_Diseases |
| Title: | Hog Cholera |
| Description: | An article on Hog Cholera. |
| Location: | http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/timeline/cholera.htm |
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| Directory: | Health / Animal / Veterinary_Medicine |
| Title: | USDA APHIS -Veterinary Services |
| Description: | United States regulatory body charged with protecting, sustaining, and improving the health, quality, and productivity of U.S. livestock and poultry. Includes departments and programs. |
| Location: | http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs |
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| Directory: | Health / Animal / Veterinary_Medicine |
| Title: | Veterinary Accreditation |
| Description: | USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service offers information on the accreditation program which allows private veterinary practitioners to work cooperatively with Federal veterinarians and State animal health officials in connection with the export of animals. |
| Location: | http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/vet_accreditation/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Child_Health / Infant_and_Toddlers / Nutrition |
| Title: | WIC - Women, Infants and Children |
| Description: | Mission is to support low-income women and children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk by providing foods to supplement diets, information on healthy eating, support for women who breastfeed, and referrals to health care. |
| Location: | http://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Child_Health / Nutrition |
| Title: | Child Nutrition Home Page |
| Description: | School lunch, school breakfast, special milk, summer food and child/adult care are some of the topics discussed at this site. |
| Location: | http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Child_Health / Nutrition |
| Title: | Healthy School Meals Resource System |
| Description: | Providing information to persons working in USDA's Child Nutrition Programs. |
| Location: | http://schoolmeals.nal.usda.gov/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Child_Health / Nutrition / Articles |
| Title: | Food Guide Pyramid for Young Children |
| Description: | Providing ways to improve diets in children from aged 2 to 6 as well as to simplify the educational messages and focus on young children's food preferences and nutritional requirements. |
| Location: | http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/FGP4Children.htm |
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