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integrated pest management. National IPM Network Search Engine, North Central Region. This
is THE search engine for IPM at the land grant institutions of the region (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio,South Dakota, Wisconsin). Thanks to John VanDyke and Iowa State University for this great tool.
Note that Mac users can search directly from the desktop.
Database
of IPM Resources (DIR). DIR searches worldwide for IPM resources accessible
through the Internet. DIR covers a wide array of crops, pests, control tactics, regions,
organizations, and related topics in a user-friendly format. Its contents span most of the
disciplines involved in IPM. This search engine is produced by a cooperative effort of
four land grant universities.
Database of IPM Textbooks (DIT).
The same group of universities that developed DIR, offer us DIT, a database of IPM
textbooks from all over the world. The DIT Search Engine can be used to find IPM textbooks
that contain information on a particular topic.
Fact Sheet Database - Ohio State University. Use this
search engine to access information related to horticulture and crop science from 46
different colleges, universities, and institutions across the United States and Canada.
Frequently updated to provide a concentrated source of plant-related information for
answering your questions, or helping you teach others about plants.
E-answers
- USDA. This search engine is connected to 36 of the
land grant universities of the United States. It is quick access
to a broad range of subjects developed through the research-based
work of Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station
professionals.
Agrisurf.
This is a commercial search engine of agricultural Web sites. The sites are rated by site
reliability and access speed. The Agriculture Index has site entries for many
catagories including: IPM
Crops
Extension
Images
Organic
Farming Sustainable
Agriculture Weather
AgView - Information
Dynamics, Inc. This site is a commercial search and index tool
for locating data, information, and resources related to Agriculture.
Some topic catagories available from the home page are: Agriculture,
Crop Production, Environment, GIS/GPS, Organic Farming, Pest
Management, Sustainable Agriculture, and Weather.
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