Handy New Internet Addresses

By Bob Linnell,

SSCA Soil Conservationist

Producers looking for the latest information on a wide variety of topics can now do research from their own home computer, thanks to the Internet. A list follows that you may find interesting and potentially profitable.

• Agriculture and Agri-food Canada's home page at http://aceis.agr.ca/ leads the user to a variety of topics.
• Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food's site at http://www.sasknet.sk.ca/agfood provides access to information on crops management and statistics plus related reports.
• Alberta Ag And Food at http://www.gov.ab.ca/~agric/aginfsi.html has information on canola, other crops and livestock.
• The National Research Council's Plant Biotechnology Institute can be accessed at http://www.pbi.nrc.ca/pbi-intro.html
• FoodNet at http://foodnet.fic.ca/ is a good website providing links to food market trends and business, to commodity exchanges in Chicago, Minneapolis, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Statistics Canada and to a variety of newspapers.
• University of Manitoba is at http://www.umanitoba.ca/
• University of Guelph is at http://tdg.uoguelph.ca/
• Winnipeg Commodity Exchange is at http://www.telenium.ca/ provides some business news
• Stat Ag Market Summaries are at http://stat.mlnet.com/stat/prices.html and accesses commodity exchanges around the world as well as pulse and special crop prices.
• Sask. Wheat Pool is constructing an Internet site at http://www.lights.com/swp
• Proven Seeds div. of U.G.G. has a site at http://www.provenseed.com

These are just a few of the many sites you too can access on the Internet to help you in the everyday conduct of your business. You can find a more complete listing in the Sask. Agriculture and Food publication, The Internet "The Agricultural Magic Bus" Directory. In fact you can find articles from this paper on the SSCA home page at http://paridss.usask.ca/sscatmp/sscahome.html

Happy "surfing".