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Ag's Cool Commodities - North Carolina, "The Tarheel State," produces lots of crops, also called commodities, and at this site you can learn about them. They include corn, cotton, beef cattle, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, eggs, and soybeans. There are some unusual products listed too, such as emu. Each item has a page of its own. You'll find out about various types of crops, as well as their history, production, shipping, and nutritional value. There's a glossary of words associated with each item, so you'll know right away that a pullet is a young hen.
Capsule History of Tobacco - A Tobacco Timeline reaching from 1942 to the present.
Cotton Pickin' Web - The Cotton Pickin' Web is your portal to accurate, current, and organized information on cotton production. It is a single, national Web site that contains links to virtually all of the cotton production information available across the Cotton Belt.
Directory of Herbs - Directory of Herbs contains information on herbs for cultivation of the crops and for culinary use. Other uses are noted, so that readers are aware that they exist.
Idaho Potato Commission - HomePage for the Idaho Potato Commission containing information on Genuine Idaho Potatoes.
KingCorn.Org - The Corn Growers' Guidebook - The corniest people in the United States bring you everything you need to know about the top crop: corn. Maybe you want to raise corn, or you need a corn recipe or a corn song. Perhaps you want to find out what products have corn in them or which ancient civilizations used corn. Well, you've corn to the right place. When you have had your fill of corn, you can link to the maize page and read about--more corn.
Potatoes - This site was developed to help document the events and history surrounding the potato industry. This site focuses primarily on the potato industry as it relates to Idaho. Discover the ancient history of the potato, facts on potato farming, nutritional facts and more!
Sugar Association, Inc. - Sugar, or sucrose, is a carbohydrate that occurs naturally in every fruit and vegetable in the plant kingdom. It is the major product of photosynthesis, the process by which plants transform the sun's energy into food. Sugar occurs in greatest quantities in sugar cane and sugar beets from which it is separated for commercial use. Discover all about sugar here!
Wheat Mania Adventures - Wacky Wheat takes you on a guided tour to Kansas wheat country. Visit three farms and read the planting and harvest diaries of the families who live on them. Look inside a "prairie skyscraper" (also known as a grain elevator) and play some super wheat trivia. You'll be convinced there is such a thing as flour power.
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