This is a young shelf and it will grow. The standard for a card here is simple: does the program hand a working grower something usable for free? Programs that do are worth knowing by name, because their new work tends to show up first on their own pages.
This is one shelf of The Agriculture Resource Library, 6 entries strong. Search every shelf at once in the card catalog, or suggest a resource we missed.
6 entries
University program
The crown jewel almost nobody surfaces: a public specialist attached to a land-grant university in nearly every US county, running soil tests, diagnosing pests, and teaching workshops.
The closest thing to a personal agronomist you can have, and your taxes already paid for it.
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University program
The national gateway into the whole Cooperative Extension system from one door.
Route into any state's land-grant resources without knowing the campus.
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University program
Volunteer horticulture training run by the land-grant in every state: coursework, then service hours answering the public's plant questions.
Real training and a community, or free expert answers from those who took it.
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Reference work
Most states run a small-farm or beginning-farmer program inside their land-grant; ATTRA keeps the directory of them.
Find your state's version of Cornell Small Farms in one list.
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University program
Florida's small farms program: hot-climate protected culture and hydroponics resources from the state that grows through summer.
Greenhouse answers tuned for heat, not just northern winters.
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University program
Bruce Bugbee's lab: the plain-spoken science of light, photosynthesis, and controlled environments, generously published.
The lighting science behind every LED claim, from the source everyone cites.
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A handful of programs anchor the field, running dedicated greenhouse and indoor-growing research centers whose crop guides, environmental setpoints, and lighting research flow straight into commercial practice. The cards on this shelf name them and say what each one publishes that a grower can use directly.
The front door is Cooperative Extension: every land-grant university runs it, and your county agent can pull in campus specialists for free. Beyond that, many programs on this shelf run grower trials and answer practitioner questions directly. Our state-by-state page lists your Extension service; this shelf lists the research programs behind it.
