Farming, Agriculture & Ranching

Animals: K-12 TLC Guide Desertification: K-12 TLC Guide Earth Science: K-12 TLC Guide Foods & Nutrition: K-12 TLC Guide Invasive Species: K-12 TLC Guide

Citrus Industry: K-12 TLC Guide Frontier Farming: K-12 TLC Guide Genetically-Modified Food: K-12 TLC Guide World Food Supply: K-12 TLC Guide

Mesoamerican Farminjg & Agriculture

Farm Labor, Foot and Mouth Disease
Cows, Goats, Pigs, Poultry, Sheep
Tomatoes
Factory Farming
Fertilizers, The Future of Agriculture
Monoculture
Organic Farming, Slash and Burn Farming, Terrace Farming
Indigo Farming, Rice Farming, Tobacco Farming

The Cotton Gin, The Tractor, Sharecropping and Tenancy

Farming Agriculture Ranching
Farming Agriculture Ranching	Genetically-Modified Foods: K-12 TLC Guide. Texas Agribusiness: K-12 TLC Guide. Texas Ranching: K-12 TLC Guide. 09/30/1919: Elaine Arkansas Race Riot: K-12 TLC Guide. Ag Day. *AgBiotechNet. The Agriculture Network Information Center, Ohio State University. AgroService, Hungary. Barnyard Sounds, Harcourt School Publishers. Borlaug, Norman: K-12 TLC Guide. Breeds of Livestock, Oklahoma State University. Camp Silos. Child Labor Requirements in Agriculture, Iowa State University. Farm Aid. Farm Life, Augustana College. Farmers' Museum. Genetically-Altered Food: K-12 TLC Case Study. History Channel: 02/16/1938: Agriculture Adjustment Act Becomes Law. 01/20/1949: President Truman's "Point Four" Foreign Aid Program. 09/01/1954: Self-employed Farmers Added to Social Security Coverage. Horses: K-12 TLC Guide. How Stuff Works: Why Barns Are Usually Red. Howell Living History Farm. In the Field, BBC. John's Word Search Puzzles. McCormick Farm: K-12 TLC Guide, VA. The National Agricultural Center & Hall of Fame. The National Agricultural Library. National Centers for Disease Control: Preventing Animal Disease Transmission to Humans. National Farm-City Council. The National Grange: Official Website. Kelley, Oliver: K-12 TLC Guide. National Public Radio: 2000 Farm Progress Show: 9/27/00 (3:53). An American Family Farm through the Seasons. Bioengineered Plants Gone Wild. Canning. Century Farms: A Slice of History, Threatened. Changing Face of American Farms: 11/29/99 (8:08). China's Troubled Farm Economy: 11/29/00 (4:00). Climate Change Presents a Burr for Coffee Growers. Controlling Apple Maggot Fly?: 4/6/00 (5:02). County Fairs Offer More Education 8/28/00 (3:26). Dairy Farmers Protest Low Milk Prices: 9/6/00 (2:50). Distributors Slow to Embrace Local Food Movement. Domestic Goats & Agriculture History: 3/23/00 (5:00). Eating Right Can Save the Planet. Equipment Sharing Network: 12/3/00 (4:30). Ethanol Production: 3/23/00 (4:30). Farm Fresh Foods. Farms and Global Warming: 9/14/00 (5:00). Federal Grazing Regulations Upheld: 5/15/00 (2:30). For Cave Women, Farmers Had Extra Sex Appeal. A French Farmer Protests the WTO: 11/30/99 (3:00). The Future of Agricultural Research: 12/17/99 (8:20). Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter: 4/9/00 (5:15). Harley Warrick: Mail Pouch Barn Painter (3:45). Hispanic Farmers Fight to Sue USDA. Ice Climber Tackles Iowa Silos. Israeli Farmers and Orthodox Jews: 9/17/00 (5:10). Kids and Pesticides: 5/16/00 (6:00). Machine Harvesting Grapes: 3/18/00 (2:45). Malawi's Green Revolution Aligns Diet and Land. Missouri Farms: 9/27/00 (12:30). Monsanto GMO Ignites Big Seed War. New Use for Rubber Trees: 5/30/00 (2:00). Nitrous Oxide: A Necessary Evil of Agriculture. Organic Seed Farmers v. Engineered Seed Farmers. 'Pesticide Drift' Eluding Efforts To Combat It* Plants: The Fuel of the Future? Prairie Pioneer Seeks to Reinvent the Way We Farm. Regulating Crop Pesticides: 8/22/00 (8:00). Reintroducing Hemp as a Farm Crop: 12/14/99 (8:36). Saving the Family Farm: 10/13/00 (3:21). Texas Rancher an Unlikely Environmentalist. Tobacco Barns: Stately Relics of a Bygone Era. United Farm Workers Radio: 11/20/99 (7:30). Urban Farmers: 12/6/00 (6:00). Wasabi: 12/19/99 (5:31). Washington State Apple Industry & the WTO (4:30). Window Farming. Old South Farm Museum and Agriculture Learning Center. People's Party Platform (1896), U.S. Secretary of State. Pike Place Market: K-12 TLC Guide. Rare Breeds Program at Plimoth Plantation, Plimoth-on-Web. *Smithsonian Magazine: Farming Like the Incas. UKAgriculture. The Weather Notebook, Mount Washington Observatory: Snow: Nature's Fertilizer. Wessels Living History Farm. Why Round Barns?*, Fulton County Historical Society.
Farm Labor Farm Labor	Ch�vez, C�sar: K-12 TLC Guide. Huerta, Dolores: K-12 TLC Guide. Velasquez, Baldemar: K-12 TLC Guide. The Citrus Industry: K-12 TLC Guide. Labor: K-12 TLC Guide. National Public Radio: 01/16/99: WWII Mexican Farm Laborers (6:20). United Farm Workers. Official Web Site. United Farm Workers Foundation: Civil Rights/Human Rights K-12 TLC Guide. 08/22/1966 United Farm Workers Formed, Library of Congress. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. FBI. Harvard University. National Public Radio: United Farm Workers Radio (audio: 7:30). PBS. Texas State Historical Association. Thinkquest. University of Washington. USA Today.
Farming Agriculture Ranching Foot & Mouth Disease	BBC: 1967 Ban on Movement of Farm Animals. National Centers for Disease Control: Preventing Animal Disease Transmission to Humans. Photo Essay: Europe's Meat Panic, TIME. Special Report, The Guardian.
Farming Agriculture Ranching Cows	Dissections: K-12 TLC Guide. Methane: K-12 TLC Guide. Milk: K-12 TLC Guide. 12/19/1920: Possum Sweetheart, Breaks World's Record Producing 37,361 Pounds of Milk in a Year, History Link. 01/20/1998: Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Clone Two Genetically Identical Holstein Calves, Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. BBC: Serving Cows and Sheep Burp-Free Fodder. Breeds of Cattle, Oklahoma State University. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: How to Make a More Contented Cow. Does Methane Gas From Cows Damage Our Environment?, New Zealand Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research. Mad Cow Disease: Prion Protein: K-12 TLC Guide. BBC: 05/30/1990: France Bans Imports of British Beef and Live Cattle. 05/14/2001: British Scientists Warn of Possible Outbreak. CNN: 01/26/01: Texas Cattle Quarantined. National Centers for Disease Control: Preventing Disease Transmission to Humans. National Public Radio: Mad Cow and Alzheimer's Have Surprising Link. Mad Cow Disease in Europe: 11/17/00: Report #1 (audio: 5:00). 12/05/00: Report #2 (audio: 3:50). 12/09/00: Number of Cases Increasing (audio: 4:45). 01/22/01: Disease Continues to Spread (audio: 3:11). National Public Radio: Burning Cow Manure Solves One Environmental Problem But Creates Another. Calving: 3/20/00 (3:10). Cattle Rustling: 10/10/00 (5:11). 'Cloned Beef' On Store Shelves Causes Stir in Britain. Court OKs Hormone-Free Label on Dairy Products in Ohio. Cows and Waterbeds: 11/8/99 (3:30). Drought Conditions Worsen in SE U.S.: 9/16/00 (5:30). Going Organic Helps a Small Dairy Stay Afloat. Got (Good) Milk? Ask the Dairy Evangelist. Longhorn Cattle Are Prized By the Inch. Moo North: Cows Sense Earth's Magnetism. Organic Milk: 8/15/00 (5:00). Power Lines Upset Cows' Compass. The Robotic Milker: 8/15/00 (4:09). Scientists Sequence the First Bovine DNA. The Truth About Grass-Fed Beef. Unpasteurized Milk Black Market: 11/20/99 (5:00). ProCon.org: Is There Pus in Milk? *Pulse of the Planet: Methane from Cows. The Milk Makers*: K-12 TLC Guide, Gail Gibbons.
Farming Agriculture Ranching Pigs	Breeds of Swine, Oklahoma State University. National Public Radio: Bacon Burgers (audio: 3:15). Eating the Whole Hog. From Pig to Art (audio: 5:00). Hogs and Manure Lagoons (audio: 6:00). Modifying Pigs for Human Transplant (audio: 4:00). Scientists Decode DNA of Domestic Pig. Pigs, Loogootee West Elementary School. *Olivia, Falconer, Ian: Amazon.com. Teacher Lesson Plan*.
Farming Agriculture Ranching Poultry	Breeds of Poultry, Oklahoma State University. Butterball.com. Butterball Turkey Talk, National Public Radio: 11/20/99 (audio: 3:30). Chickscope, University of Illinois: EggMath. Embryology: 21-day Chick Life Cycle. From Egg to Chick. MRI Database. Standard Varieties of Chicken. The Chicken Coop. Chicken Genome Project, Michigan State University. FeatherSite. National Public Radio: The Buffalo Chicken Wing Industry. Cockfighting Discouraged (audio: 3:41). Cockfighting in Oklahoma (audio: 7:30). Georgia Poultry to Cuba (audio: 3:43). Half-Hen/Half-Rooster Shows Cells Can Decide Sex. Swinging Chicken Ritual Divides Orthodox Jews. Turning Chicken Poop into Power. With Salmonella, It's a Chicken-or-Egg Conundrum. PoultryNet, University of Illinois.
Farming Agriculture Ranching Factory Farming	Animal Rights: K-12 TLC Guide. Water Pollution: K-12 TLC Guide. Boss Hog, Rolling Stone. Center for Food Safety. Clean Water Action Council. A Factory Farm Near You, The New York Times. Factory Farming: A Moral Issue, The Minnesota Daily. Farm Aid. Farm Sanctuary. Humane Farming Association. Humane Society of the United States. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The Sierra Club. Sustainable Table.
Farming Agriculture Ranching Fertilizers	Water Pollution and Purification: K-12 TLC Guide. International Fertilizer Industry Association. Michigan State University. *Scientific American. Tufts University. Understanding Phosphorus Fertilizers*, University of Minnesota.
Farming Agriculture Ranching The Future of Agriculture	K-12 TLC Case Study of Genetically-Modified Food Farm Aid. "Feeding the Future -- Sustainable Agriculture", Australian Academy of Science. Future of Agriculture, The Center for Rural Studies, University of North Dakota. Future Harvest. Index of Articles by John E. Ikerd, University of Missouri, Columbia. "Organic: Is it the Future of Farming?", Nature Magazine. "Shaping the Future of Agriculture", Agriculture 21, Magazine of the Agriculture Department of the FAO. "Who Bought the Farm?", American Radioworks.
Farming Agriculture Ranching Monoculture	First Monday, University of Illinois at Chicago. University of California, Berkeley. University of Reading.
Farming Agriculture Ranching Organic Farming	ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service. Cornell University. Food and Agriculture Orgnization of the United Nations. National Public Radio: 'Pesticide Drift' Eluding Efforts To Combat It Organic Consumers Association. Organic Farming Research Foundation. Student Organic Farm, Michigan State University. U.S. Department of Agriculture. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. University of California, Berkeley. University of California, Davis. University of Michigan.
Farming Agriculture Ranching Slash & Burn Farming	About.com. Encyclopedia of Earth. Google Videos. Public School Foundation of Manatee County, Florida. Science Daily. United Nations. USAID. Virginia Tech (pdf).
Farming Agriculture Ranching Terrace Farming	Arizona State University (pdf). eNotes. Food and Agriculture Orgnization of the United Nations (pdf). Minnesota State University. Social Studies for Kids. Southwest Farm Press. University of Missouri.
Farming Agriculture Ranching Indigo Farming	Eliza Pinckney: K-12 TLC Guide. Clemson University. eHow.com. Indiana University. The New Georgia Encyclopedia. Sewanee: The University of the South. Slavery in America. University of California, Santa Cruz (pdf). University of North Florida (pdf).
Farming Agriculture Ranching Rice Farming	South Carolina Rice Plantations: K-12 TLC Guide. Discovery.com. "The Economist". History for Kids. North Carolina A&T (pdf). National Park Service (pdf). Rice Diversity. RiceFarming.com. Slavery in America. Texas Historical Association. U.S. Department of Agriculture (pdf). U.S. Rice Producers. United Nations Conference of Trade and Development. Unversity of Georgia (pdf). YouTube: SriLankaTravel.com. TeachingJapanGuide. World Bank.
Farming Agriculture Ranching Sharecropping and Tenancy	Reconstruction: K-12 TLC Guide. Arkansas State University. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture. Historical Text Archive. Mississippi Historical Society. Missouri Council on Economic Education. National Park Service. New Georgia Encyclopedia. PBS: Sharecropping. University of Houston. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University of South Florida. University of Texas. Wikipedia.
Farming Agriculture Ranching Tomatoes	Botany: K-12 TLC Guide. Foods & Nutrition: K-12 TLC Guide. ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service. Cornell University. National Public Radio: Late Blight. Taking Tomatoes Back to Their Tasty Roots. U.S. Department of Agriculture. University of California, Davis.
	K-12 TLC Teachable Moments 10/16: World Food Day.
	Animals: K-12 TLC Guide. Grades 9-12: Africanized Honey Bees and Society, The University of Arizona. Other: Agriculture and the Oregon Trail, The National Park Service.

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This guide last edited 11/21/2011
This guide last revised 04/30/2009