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Animal Products:
  • American Meat Science Association: http://www.meatscience.org/default.htm

  • USDA site for "food consumption" data by product, year: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/cgi-usda/subj.cgi?Food

  • National Cattleman's Beef Association: http://www.beef.org/

  • National Pork Producers Council: http://www.nppc.org/

  • National Sheep Improvement Program, General information on sheep programs: http://www.nsip.org/
  • General Animal Information:
  • American Society of Animal Science: http://www.asas.org/

  • American Dairy Science Association: http://www.adsa.org/

  • American Meat Science Association: http://www.meatscience.org/default.htm

  • Poultry Science Association: http://www.poultryscience.org/

  • Federation of Animal Science Societies: http://www.fass.org/
  • General Animal Science:
  • Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations: provides General information about world livestock census population, current and past; reports on problems such as foot/hoof and mouth disease, sustainable agriculture developments, and much more. http://www.fao.org/

  • Actual FAO database collections: http://apps.fao.org/cgi-bin/nph-db.pl

  • USDA homepage for General information on current events, such as speeches/presentations by the Secretary of Agriculture to updates on the farm bill process: http://www.usda.gov/

  • National Resources Inventory (NRI), with maps and data about use of agricultural lands, etc: http://www.nhq.nrcs.usda.gov/NRI/1997/

  • National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). A tremendous site that gives a calendar for the release of all the reports from how many eggs we produce to how much wool and then hot-links you to the report from the monthly category: http://www.usda.gov/nass/pubs/rptscal.htm

  • …or a more general site that has a wealth of NASS reports: http://www.usda.gov/nass/nasshome.htm

  • USDA site for "food consumption" data by product, year: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/cgi-usda/subj.cgi?Food

  • Agricultural industry association listing, hundreds of sites for US (country and state) and international country, to include breed association headquarters and much more: http://agniclib.east.asu.edu/atmic_agriassn.htm

  • National Cattleman's Beef Association: http://www.beef.org/

  • National Pork Producers Council: http://www.nppc.org/

  • National Sheep Improvement Program, General information on sheep programs: http://www.nsip.org/
  • Livestock:
  • National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). A tremendous site that gives a calendar for the release of all the reports from how many eggs we produce to how much wool and then hot-links you to the report from the monthly category: http://www.usda.gov/nass/pubs/rptscal.htm

  • …or a more general site that has a wealth of NASS reports: http://www.usda.gov/nass/nasshome.htm

  • National Cattleman's Beef Association: http://www.beef.org/

  • National Pork Producers Council: http://www.nppc.org/

  • National Sheep Improvement Program, General information on sheep programs: http://www.nsip.org/
  • Poultry:
  • Poultry Science Association: http://www.poultryscience.org/http://www.poultryscience.org/
  • Research:
  • American Society of Animal Science: http://www.asas.org/

  • American Dairy Science Association: http://www.adsa.org/

  • American Meat Science Association: http://www.meatscience.org/default.htm

  • Poultry Science Association: http://www.poultryscience.org/

  • Federation of Animal Science Societies: http://www.fass.org/