Related Contacts
IAgrM

UK Government Sites

Communities & Local Government
DEFRA (Department for the Environment,Food and Rural Affairs)
Feed hygiene regulation (183/2005): Guidance for farmers
Info on the Feed Hygiene act
Food Standards Agency
Government Economic Service
The Met Office
Trading Standards
Info on trading standards and areas covered such as weights and measures depa

Statistical Sites

Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
Eurostat
EU statistics site
FAOSTAT
Statistical databases of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation
FAOSTAT
Data on international agriculture, food, fishing and forestry
Official UK Statistics Site
Statsbase

Academic Sites
UK Universities with Farm Management Related Courses and Research

Nottingham Trent University, Department of Land-based studies (formerly Brackenhurst College)
Bournemouth University
Harper Adams University College
Pershore Group of Colleges
Queen's University, Belfast
University of Aberdeen
University of Aberyswyth - Welsh Institute of Rural Studies
University of Cambridge - Land Economics Department
University of Central Lancashire
University of Exeter - Agricultural Economics Unit
University of Gloucestershire (Formerly Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education
University of Hertfordshire
University of London Wye College - Agricultural Economics and Business Management
University of Newcastle - School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development
University of Nottingham - Rural Business Research Unit
University of Portsmouth - Centre for the Economics & Management of Aquatic Resources
University of Reading - Department of Agricultural and Food Economics
University of Wales, Bangor

UK Colleges with Agricultural Interest

Askham Bryan, York
Bicton College of Agriculture
Bishop Burton College, Beverley
Buckinghamshire Chilterns, University College
Cannington College, Somerset
Cornwall College
Merristwood College, Surrey
Oaklands College, Herts
Plumpton College, East Sussex
Royal Agricultural College
Scottish Agricultural College
Somerset Centre of Management in Agriculture
Sparsholt College, Hants
Warwickshire College
Wiltshire College (includes Lackham College)
Writtle College, Essex

Product Related Sites

Home Grown Cereals Authority
British Egg Information Service
British Meat Organisation
British Potato Council
Meat and Livestock Commission
National Dairy Council
National Milk Records
Sugar Price Information

Environmental Sites

BTO - The British Trust of Ornithology
CEFAS - Centre for the Environment, Fisheries and Aquatic Science
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Countryside Agency
Countryside Survey 2000
Environment Agency
England and Wales
Environmental Change Network
European Environment Agency
Membership of Society for The Environment
IAgrMis a founding constituent body of the Society for the Environment (SocEnv). Through its relationship with SocEnv, IAgrM is able to offer the award of the Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) qualification to suitably qualified and/or experienced members of IAgrM.
National Air Quality Information Archive
National Biodiversity Network
Pesticides Safety Directorate
Scottish Environment Protection Agency
Sustainable Development website

Associations

Agricultural Economics Society
Agricultural Economics Society
British Institute of Agricultural Consultants
Country Landowners Association
Institute of Agricultural Secretaries and Administrators
National Farmers Union

Rural Development

European Rural Development Network
Rural Development Network

US Agricultural Sites

American Agricultural Economics Association
US NFU Infolinks
Agriculture Home Page
Though not specifically concerned with agricultural economics, links together many sources of agricultural information available on the World Wide Web.
Chicago board of trade
United States Department of Agriculture Economics and Statistics System.
The data sets are in Lotus format and can be downloaded with suitable client software.

International Sites

14th International Farm Management Congress, 10th-15th August 2003, Perth, Australia
Australian Agricultural Economics Society
Farming Systems Research Group
At University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
International Farm Management Association
The Agricultural Economics Virtual Library
Maintained by Jason Beddow of Texas Tech University (email: beddow@ttu.edu). Despite the US bias, it provides a starting point for the Agricultural/Resource economist searching for information under the following headings:-
- General information
- Information on Agricultural Economics Journals
- Agricultural Economics Related Mailing Lists
- Economic Information from US Extension Services
- Agricultural Market information
- Newsgroups
- Links to Departments of Agricultural Economics.
World Agricultural Information Centre (WAICENT)
The Food & Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations World Agricultural Information Centre (WAICENT) which includes two different sub-systems
- FAOSTAT: covering statistical data
- FAOINFO: covering textual information
World Bank
The World Bank has links to summaries of World Bank projects and its publications catalogue. It is likely that policy papers, country economic reports and environmental reports will be provided on-line in the future.

Specialist Software Providers

Agricultural Network
Agridata
Farmers Weekly Interactive
Farming Online
FarmPlan


 
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