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• - Lists of books, articles, and websites on specific agricultural subjects. Also includes related science fair projects, biographies of leading scientists, and 4-H projects.
  
• - Kindergarten students tell about plants, animals, and a visit to a local farm.
  
• - Lots of information on apples like recipes, activity sheets, and the story of Johnny Appleseed.
  
• - Tells about the animals and produce raised on one family farm. Includes photographs.
  
• - Interactive story and coloring books from this farm equipment manufacturer.
  
• - Online tours of wheat, dairy, fish, beef, and poultry farms.
  
• - A virtual look at Kansas farms from the experts who live and work there.
  
• - Covers topics such as the history of food, nutrition, and agriculture as well as current farming practices across the globe.
  
• - Science, geography, and writing project intended to teach people about farming. Includes sites designed by kids in different regions of the world that give personal accounts of farming.
  
• - Learn about organic farming, beneficial insects, plant parts. Coloring book teaches kids about organic farming.
  
• - For junior members of the NFU. Offers information, activities, and games relating to farming and the countryside.
  
• - Explains what food is, where it comes from, and how it is made.
  
• - Explores the negative side of intensive animal agriculture.
  
• - A 14-year-old girl shares scenes from her life on the family farm.
  
• - Describes the process of quality testing, harvesting, storing, labeling, and juice extracting of this healthy beverage. Includes related photos of the process.
  
• - Explains how advances in food biotechnology could help feed a growing population, grow more nutritious foods, and keep the earth productive and healthy.
  
• - Features cartoons outline basic farm safety rules, a virtual field trip to some of Ireland's sheep farms, and a look at animal physiology and classification.
  
• - Learn about cows, milk, and the dairy industry through fun facts, games, recipes, and a virtual tour.
  
• - Features fun facts, coloring pages, and other printables. From the U.S. Farm Service Agency.
  
• - Thinkquest site offering a look at dairy, livestock, and crop farms, as well as machinery. Includes a glossary and games.
  
• - Helps children understand the importance of agriculture in everyday life through information on soil, crops, weather, and equipment.
  
• - A man tells his story of growing up on an Illinois farm during the Depression era.
  
• - Learn about beneficial insects and how they help organic farmers grow crops
  
• - Typical day in the life of a dairy farmer as well as fast facts about Vermont farming in general.
  
• - Several photographs and facts about the farming techniques and technologies practiced at Mount Vernon.
  
• - Includes safety tips, coloring pages, print-and-color brochures, and interactive quiz.
  
• - Various projects for kids from the USDA Agricultural Research Service.
  
• - Farming statistics and games from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
  
• - Reports on the risks, benefits, hopes, and fears of genetically modified food crops. Includes interviews with scientists, food industry representatives, farmers, and critics. From PBS.
  
• - A day in the live of Kansas wheat farms with virtual tours and trivia.
  
• - Presents the methods, health benefits, and environmental factors of organic farming.
  
• - Interactive guide to life on the farm. Includes pictures, animal sounds, and related links.
  
• - Explores the prairie, pioneer farming, the story of corn, and the future of farming.
  
• - A dairy farm in California presents fun facts about cows and milk, as well as instructions for making curds and whey, butter, and milk glue.
  
• - Students from more than a dozen countries tell about life on the farm.
  
• - About animals, plants, activities and people who live and work on ranches on the western slope of the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
  
• - Explores the rise and fall of Midwestern farmhouses, and the literature they inspired. Also examines the cost of advances in agriculture. From PBS.
  
• - Dozens of kid-friendly links to sites about food, agriculture, and the environment.
  
• - Explains what happens on the farm and how food gets from the farm to the table.