Computers on the Farm: Farm Uses for Computers, How to Select Software and Hardware, and Online Information Sources in AgricultureSmith, Deborah Takiff
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Computers on the Farm: Farm Uses for Computers, How to Select Software and Hardware, and Online Information Sources in Agriculture
Smith, Deborah Takiff
Farms -- United States; Information storage and retrieval systems -- Agriculture; Microcomputers
Farmers and ranchers who have computer terminals with communication
capability can access AGNET. Others can tap into AGNET through their
county Extension services. AGNET subscribers are typically agricultural
lenders and bankers. Extension specialists, farm managers, home
economists, agricultural consulting firms, farmers and ranchers, and
exporters of agricultural commodities.
ADDRESS: AGNET
University of Nebraska
105 Miller Hall
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68583
=2. AGRICOIA=
AGRICOIA is an online information service produced by the National
Agricultural Library (NAD of USDA), and is available commercially from
a number of sources (including DIALOG and Bibliographic Retrieval
Services). It provides comprehensive access to information on published
literature pertaining to agriculture.
AGRICOIA is the catalog and index for NAL and covers materials
published since 1970. It includes about 1.5 million citations.
AGRICOIA contains citations to worldwide published books, serial
titles, and journal articles on agriculture and related subjects. In
addition to bibliographic citations of published literature, the system
offers information through several specialized subfiles; these subfiles
include brucellosis (BRU), environmental impact statements covering
1977 and 1978 (ENV), and the Food and Nutrition Information Center,
which emphasizes human nutrition research and education and food
technology (FNC).
Librarians are the main users of this system.
ADDRESS: To find out more about AGRICOIA, contact:
Educational Resources Staff
National Agricultural Library
Room 1402
Beltsville, MD 20705
=3. AgriData Network=
AgriData is a private information and computing network specializing in
agriculture. It offers immediate access to more than 10,000 pages of
continuously updated business, financial, marketing, weather, and price
information, as well as analyses and recommendations from its own and
other reporters, analysts, economists, meteorologists, and researchers.
It offers several different services, including an online computing
service that allows users to access a library of microcomputer software
programs that can be transferred to the user's microcomputer; an
agricultural production technology service offering data bases from 40
land-grant universities and from agricultural, chemical, fertilizer,
equipment, seed, and feed companies; an "electronic yellow pages," or
product service directory for farmers; and electronic mail.
ADDRESS: AgriData Resources, Inc.
205 West Highland Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53203
=4. Agri-Markets Data Service (AMDS)=
Agri-Markets Data Service is an agricultural data base service offered
by Capital Publications in Arlington, Va.
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