Bill Pearson's Useful Agricultural Sites:
Category: Cropping
Agricentre
Up to date industry
information
including
:news and weather services, agronomy tools such as NIAB's variety
selector,
extensive product information ... and lots more.
Agrichem
(International)
A comprehensive range of
products to
agricultural
merchants, both in the United Kingdom and overseas including seed
treatments,
potato storage products, herbicides and fungicides.
Aventis
Crop Science
Includes a useful
weedspotter
Banks
Agriculture
Specialists in Grain
Marketing, Crop
Protection,
Fertilizer and Seed
Biological
Control Virtual Information Center
Information on biological
control
British
Agrochemicals Association
United Kingdom trade
association of
companies
engaged in the manufacture, formulation and national distribution of
pesticide
products for agriculture, forestry, horticulture, home gardening,
industrial
and local authority outlets.
British
Crop
Protection Council - BCPC
UK charity whose objective
is to
promote
and encourage the science and practice of crop protection
Clarendon
Agricare
Company based at Portadown
Coppice
Resources
Coppice Resources Ltd was
formed to
bring
together the differing expertise of an informal group of like minded
people
with a belief in the potential short rotation coppice (SRC) has to
become
a key agricultural crop.
Crop
Protection Association
The Crop Protection
Association is the
United
Kingdom trade body representing companies involved in the distribution
of crop protection products
Crops
Online
Trading site for arable
farmers
(registration
needed)
Cross
Compliance
The Defra-funded portal for
cross compliance support and advice for England
Cyanamid
Agri Centre
Agricultural chemicals
manufacturer
CPB
Twyford
CPB Twyford is dedicated
to providing
farmers
with crop varieties that deliver higher yields, superior disease and
pest
resistance and improved quality and performance in adverse weather
conditions.
Dalgety
Arable
Supplies and services to
UK agriculture.
Dow
Agrosciences
Information on grassland
and weed
control
Eco-Tillage
Management system
develpoed by Monsanto
and
Simba
Field
Guide to Noxious and Other Selected Weeds
Guide to weeds from
British Columbia
FMC
Agricultural Products Group
Pest, disease and spray
information
Gorsham
& Bateson Ltd
Long established
agricultural trading
company
committed to innovation through the introduction of new industrial
crops.
Grainman
On-line trading site for
arable farmers.
Grain
Net
Online grain trading
service
Guide
to Wheat Diseases and Pests
Description of the major
wheat and
triticale
diseases, insect pests, nematodes, physiologic and genetic disorders,
and
mineral and environmental stresses
Hilleshog
(Novartis Seeds Ltd)
Information, news and
events for
Britain's
sugar beet growers.
HGCA
Market information from
the Home Grown
Cereals
Authority
Loveland
Industries Ltd
Leader in adjuvants
Luxan
UK
ltd
Crop protection products
including
potato
sprout suppressants, herbicides, fungicides and insecticides for agriculture,
horticulture
and amenity sectors.
Monsanto
Monsanto's web site about
food
biotechnology
in the UK and around the world
New
Farm Crops
Husbandry guidelines from
Norvartis
(see
below)
NIAB
NIAB supplies consultancy,
training,
information,
contract research and technical services to governments,
supra-governmental
agencies, agribusiness and farmers
PBIC
Seeds
Plant breeder
Peas
&
Beans (BEPA)
The British Edible Pulse
Association
Pesticides
Safety Directorate
Administers the regulation
of
agricultural,
horticultural, forestry, food storage and home garden
pesticides
Plant
Pathology
Internet Guide Book
The British Society for
Plant Pathology
Potatocrop.com
Aims to be the most
comprehensive
source
of information on potatoes on the net (registration needed).
Processors
and Growers Research Organisation (PGRO)
The Processors and Growers
Research
Organisation(PGRO)
is the UK centre for applied research on temperate peas and beans:
Semundo
Information on arable and
forage crops
Spuds
Everything about potatoes
from the SAC
Syngenta
Formed from Novartis and
Zeneca,
Syngenta
is the world's leading agribusiness company operating across all major
areas of crop protection and seeds.
Texas
Plant Disease Handbook - Contents
Information on plant
diseases from
Texas
Extension Plant Pathologists
TGS
Seeds Limited
Mobile seed cleaners
Trials
4UTC
Trials4U2C, funded by
MAFF, managed by
HGCA
and Velcourt on two sites and updated weekly, will tell you exactly
what
is going on at the crucial times of the year. Read comments from the
two
farm managers and key researchers.
Uniroyal
Chemicals
Uniroyal chemical seed
treatments
Weed
Spotter
Weed
identification from Bayer
Weed
Science
Information herbicide
resistance
Weed
Science Society of America
Information on weeds and
their control
from
the Weed Science Society of America
Whole
Crop
Everything about whole
crop cereals