Crop Sciences

What is a Crop?: Definition, Uses, Past, and Present
CPSC 112: Introduction to Crop Sciences

Recommended reading:
Ch. 1, Introductory Crop Science , R. Waldren
Ch. 1, Principles of Crop Production, G. Acquaah

Images

• World Arable Land, and crop land and freshwater per person
• World grain produced
• World grain produced per person

Reading Materials

• Illinois Agriculture
• Illinois Farm Report
• Safeguarding the World's Crop Diversity
• Germplasm: Insurance for the Future that Pays Current Dividends

Links of Interest about Crops (Definition, Uses, History)

History

• Society for Ancient Agricultural Knowledge
• Origins of Agriculture-D. Seigler-University of Illinois
• Biodiversity International
• Plants in Agricultural History
  Crop Origin and Diversity
  Plant Domestication
• History of Horticulture-Purdue
• Origins of Agriculture
• History of Agriculture
• Wikipedia-History of Agriculture
• History of American Agriculture
• History of Agriculture
• History of Farming-Agriculture and Farm Innovations
• Agropolis Museum-Food and Agricultures of the World
• Origins of Agriculture and Human Nutrition-University of Maryland
• Origins of Agriculture-Plants and Human Affairs
• Seeds of Change Garden
• Location, Location, Location: The First Farmers
• First Farmers

Statistics

• NationMaster Statistics: Agriculture
• Illinois Agricultural Statistics Service
• Illinois Department of Agriculture
• Illinois Cooperative Extension Service
• USDA-National Agricultural Statistics Service
• Economic Research Service-USDA-Illinois State Fact Sheet
• US Department of Agriculture
• World Food Problems-University of Maryland
• US Population Clock
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
• FAO Stat
• World Population and Available Land
• USDA-ARS National Crop Germplasm Committees