Home > Agriculture Links > Ag Inputs Links


Energy
Equipment
Fertilizer and Pesticides
Feed
Seed
Soil
Water



ENERGY

Agricultural Energy Consumers Association - a non-profit agricultural consumer advocate organization which represents the energy interests of California growers.



EQUIPMENT

Association of Equipment Manufacturers - provides trade association services on a worldwide basis to companies that manufacture and market most of the agricultural, construction, forestry, and materials handling equipment throughout the world.

Caterpillar - world's largest manufacturer of construction equipment and diesel and natural gas turbines.

Case IH Agricultural Equipment - worldwide manufacturer of agricultural and construction equipment.

Deere & Company - a global company with several equipment operations and complementary service businesses. Color photography, detailed descriptions, and specification sheets are available on all agricultural equipment.

Equipment Locator Service - a complete agricultural equipment site.

Farm Equipment Manufacturers Association - provides a convenient location for users and manufacturers of specialized agricultural equipment to learn more about each others products and needs.

New Holland - sells more tractors and more hay and forage equipment than anyone else in the world.

North American Equipment Dealers Association - serves the agricultural, industrial and outdoor power equipment dealers in the United States and Canada.

Pearman Corporation - company with quality agricultural equipment designed to improve production efficiency.



FERTILIZER AND PESTICIDES

Ag Services of America - one stop alternative for farmers to purchase quality, name brand crop inputs and for operating financing.

Agrichemical and Environmental News - a monthly report on environmental and pesticide related issues.

American Crop Protection Association - represents the major manufacturers, formulators, and distributors of crop protection and pest control products, including bioegineered products with crop production and protection characteristics.

Areawide Pest Management Research Unit - effort by USDA's Agricultural Research Service to develop, integrate, and evaluate multiple strategies and technologies to suppress insect pest species.

Association of American Plant Food Control Officials - an organization of fertilizer control officials from each state of the United States, from Canada and Puerto Rico who are actively engaged in the administration of fertilizer laws and regulations.

California Fertilizer Association - has represented fertilizer manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, and retail dealers that sell products within California.

Centre Analytical Laboratories, Inc. - a commercial analytical chemistry laboratory providing research and development and regulatory support services for chemical product registration, including pesticides.

Codex Alimentarius Commission - an international body that establishes maximum residue limits for pesticides to ensure that consumers are not exposed to unsafe levels of hazardous materials.

Consortium for International Crop Protection - non-profit organization formed in 1978 by a group of U.S. universities to assist developing countries reduce food crop losses caused by pests.

European Fertilizer Manufacturers Association - mission to provide a dependable and competitive supply of high quality mineral fertilizer.

Environmental Protection Agency Office of Pesticide Programs - mission to protect public health and the environment from the risks posed by pesticides and to promote safer means of pest control.

Global Crop Protection Federation - a worldwide representative of the crop protection industry.

Griffin L.L.C. - a customer-based, supplier of proven crop protection chemicals that currently sells products in 80 countries around the world.

International Fertilizer Industry Association - a non-profit industrial organization with around 500 member companies in about 80 countries.

International Potash Institute - a non-governmental, non-profit organization founded in 1953 to foster the application of scientific and practical methods for the general improvement of the soil through the use of fertilizer, especially potash.

Mid-America Crop Protection Association - mission to identify business issues relating to food production and to take action to address those issues identified as important to the membership.

Monsanto Agricultural Sector - an industry leader in agriculture, herbicides, biotechnology, genetic engineering and agricultural technologies. This site offers information about products, services, and developing technologies.

National Alliance of Independent Crop Consultants - a professional society that represents the nation's crop protection and research consultants.

National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides- a national, non-profit membership organization of groups and individuals formed in 1981 to serve as a national network committed to pesticide safety and the adoption of alternative pest management strategies.

National Pesticide Information Center - a cooperative effort of Oregon State University and EPA that provides objectives, science-based information on a variety of pest-related subjects.

North American Plant Protection Organization - a regional plant protection organization of the International Plant Protection Convention that coordinates the efforts among Canada, the United States and Mexico to protect their plant resources from the entry, establishment and spread of regulated plant pests, while facilitating intra/inter regional trade.

Pesticide Action Network North America Regional Center - has campaigned to replace pesticides with ecologically sound alternatives since 1982.

Pesticide Data Program - a program to collect data on pesticide residues in food implemented by USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service.

Pesticide Education Resources - has pesticide-related information and extension publications.

Synthetic Organic Chemicals Manufacturing Association - a member driven trade association representing the legislative, regulatory and commercial interests of its more than 300 member companies from the chemical industry.

Terra Industries, Inc. - a leading producer and marketer of nitrogen fertilizer and methanol in North America and of nitrogen in the United Kingdom for agricultural and industrial customers.

The Fertilizer Institute - the trade association representing the fertilizer industry.



FEED

American Feed Industry Association - the feed industry's single strong voice on the federal and state levels in government affairs, compliance, education and public relations.

Pennfield Corporation - a widely-respected family-owned Pennsylvania feed company that has been serving the Mid-Atlantic states since 1971.



SEED

Agrigold - a company that develops, produces, and markets hybrid seed corn.

American Seed Trade Association - a trade association consisting of 800 companies in the seed and related industries in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

DeKalb Genetics Corporation- a company with corn, soybean, sorghum, alfalfa, sunflower and forage seed products.

International Seed Trade Federation - the global organization acting on behalf of its members to promote the interests of the seed industry.

Net Seeds, Inc. - a company that provides seed corn to Midwestern farmers.

Pioneer Hi-Bred International - develops, produces, support and sells seed genetics.



SOIL

Soil and Water Conservation Society - a non-profit, scientific and educational organization of professional conservationists.

Soil Science Society of America - the professional home for over 6,000 professionals throughout the world dedicated to the advancement of soil science.



WATER

California Farm Water Coalition - formed in 1989 to increase public awareness of agriculture's efficient use of water and promote the industry's environmental sensitivity regarding water.

Irrigation Association - a non-profit north American organization whose mission is to improve the products and practices used to manage water resources and to help shape the worldwide business environment of the irrigation industry.

National Water Resources Association - a non-profit federation of state organizations whose membership includes rural water districts, municipal water entities, commercial companies and individuals.