Internet Use in Agriculture Ag Service Club, 2/26/99 Jon Clements Berrien County Horticulture & Marketing Agent http://www.msue.msu.edu/berrien/hort

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The Virtual Orchard is an 'early-adopter,' clearinghouse for sustainable apple production information.

• http://www.virtualorchard.net

The West Virginia University, Kearneysville Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center has full color pictures and keys of all major tree fruit pests.

• http://www.caf.wvu.edu/kearneysville/wvufarm1.html

The complete Pennsylvania Tree Fruit Production Guide is a valuable resource for all orchardists -- plus Penn State is pioneering the use of interactive decision-making, 'expert' systems on the web.

• http://www.cas.psu.edu/docs/CASDEPT/Hort/TFPG/

The Apple Information Manager (AIM) is a collaborative Extension and research effort of the Universities of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont to deliver timely, relevant, and useful region-wide apple production information to New England commercial apple growers via the World Wide Web. AIM is also researching the use of daily, site specific weather information that-- when combined with powerful insect pest and disease prediction models -- will deliver accurate, easily implemented, IPM decision making tools to all New England orchardists.

• http://orchard.uvm.edu/aim/

The Washington State University Tree Fruit Extension Team has put together an extensive page that is a road map to pertinent information posted on servers at their various research and extension centers.

• http://fruit.wsu.edu

Pesticide Education Resources at the University of Nebraska/Lincoln is a source of comprehensive pesticide information and links.

• http://ianrwww.unl.edu/ianr/pat/ephome.htm

The EXtension TOXicology NETwork (EXTOXNET) is a source of objective, science-based information about pesticides, written specifically for the non-expert.

• http://ace.orst.edu/info/extoxnet/

The USDA National Agriculture Statistics Service claim -- and rightfully so -- that they are the "fact finders of agriculture."

• http://www.usda.gov/nass/

The home of IPM at Michigan State University features an IPM Information Center, and CAT (Crop Advisory Team) Alerts for all the major Michigan agricultural crops.

• http://www.msue.msu.edu/ipm/

Van Buren County Extension has responded to the requests of it's agricultural clients by providing an Agriculture page with quick links to major local agricultural information sources.

• http://www.msue.msu.edu/vanburen/

VantagePoint Network may be the future of Internet use in agriculture. Their mission is to make its customers more successful by providing them with timely, cost-effective access to the information (delivered via the WWW) they need to make economically and environmentally sound management decisions.

• http://www.vantagepoint.com/