Wikipedia:WikiProject Agriculture

About WikiProject Agriculture Welcome to WikiProject Agriculture. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of agriculture and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below. Goals This Project aims primarily to provide a consistent article structure for agricultural related topics while striving to develop and improve said agriculture articles. The goal is to make Wikipedia a comprehensive source of factually accurate, neutral articles that include relevant, credible facts. Scope See also: List of covered agriculture subjects This WikiProject strives to develop and improve articles at Wikipedia related to crop production, livestock management, aquaculture, dairy farming and forest management. The project also covers related areas, including both governmental and NGO regulatory agencies, agribusiness, support agencies such as 4H, agricultural products including fertilizers and herbicides, pest management, veterinary medicine and farming equipment and facilities. Members You can join this project by adding your name on the members list and placing the {{User WP Agriculture}} template on your user page. Add your name Here Mike Donovan (Am interested in farm machinery made and adapted in farm workshops for arable/tillage; livestock; cereal; vegetable and horticulture; cattle, sheep, pigs 18:06, 22 February 2011 (UTC) Christian Herrnboeck (I am a commercial operator running beef cattle (Charolais / Charolais Cross) and grow Cereals, Oilseeds, and Pulse crops.I am interested in working on: Machinery used in Western agriculture, Livestock, Cereal, Oilseed, and Pulse crops) 00:05, 8 October 2007 (UTC) Tom (My knowledge concerns arable and dairy in France and the UK as a first hand large scale producer, now semi-retired.) 06:43, 10 October 2007 (UTC) John Carter 13:59, 10 October 2007 (UTC) - not necessarily my specialty, but will help where I can. Doug.(talk • contribs) 23:26, 10 October 2007 (UTC) Livestock (esp. domestic pig and domestic goat), poultry (esp. chicken, domestic goose), cereals (esp. barley, maize), forestry, sustainable agriculture (esp. agroforestry and silvopasture), organic gardening, non-citrus fruits and rare/heritage breeds of livestock and poultry; also farrier science and all draft animals. Richard New Forest 06:28, 13 October 2007 (UTC) (Ecologist and conservationist farming traditional cattle for conservation grazing on heathland and marshland in southern England). Cattle, other stock, agricultural biodiversity, traditional pasture systems, sustainable agriculture, semi-natural agricultural habitats etc. IvoShandor 22:21, 23 October 2007 (UTC): I have lived in Illinois my entire life. I have done a fair amount of research on Christmas tree farming and barns. I am good for agriculture related picture requests due to my location. Ealdgyth (talk · contribs) : Horses. And photographs. I live in the middle of Illinois, right near the heart of soybean country, although I do not farm. Have an interest in heirloom breeds and seeds, that is all it is though, an interest for when I can finally move out of the Midwest and out to Wyoming with my horses. Ealdgyth || Talk 21:53, 26 October 2007 (UTC) ike9898 (talk · contribs) Agricultural byproducts. 12:50, 28 October 2007 (UTC) Arknascar44 (talk · contribs) I'll help out with the infobox templates for the project :) ( arky ) 01:55, 29 October 2007 (UTC) WAS 4.250 18:03, 30 October 2007 (UTC) Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) I live on a farm and all my neighbours are also farmers so raw article expansion is my thing. I dunno about sourcing though) Chris Chittleborough AKA CWC 08:28, 31 October 2007 (UTC) I live on my family's farm in the Australian Wheat Belt near Naracoorte. Plantscience (talk · contribs) BS in horticulture and MS in plant science. Willing to help improve areas related to horticulture. Steven Walling (talk) 06:23, 5 November 2007 (UTC) Mostly livestock and sustainable agriculture BlindEagletalk~contribs 17:47, 6 November 2007 (UTC) Own and operate a sheep and llama farm. Cgoodwin: Breeding sheep, cattle and horses in NSW. Can help with photos. Cgoodwin 06:04, 10 November 2007 (UTC) Anthere (talk) trying to collect wikibooks in agriculture Duncan1800 (talk · contribs) Tractors need some love on WP! I'm starting with Allis-Chalmers, and I'll go from there. 20:23, 30 November 2007 (UTC) George moorey (talk) want to improve agripedia Mostly assessments and GA reviews. Juliancolton The storm still blows... 18:43, 26 February 2008 (UTC) --Agrofe (talk) 17:46, 9 March 2008 (UTC): Expert in fruit and vegetable production, harvest/;packing, distribution. Let me know how I can help (or not :-) )--Agrofe (talk) 17:46, 9 March 2008 (UTC) PurdueAG_05 Agronomist with knowledge on major US field crops and weeds. 05 18:44, 15 March 2008 (UTC) Malcolmxl5 (talk) 09:35, 19 March 2008 (UTC) Agricultural statistics for UK and EU. Zharmad (talk) 18:31, 25 March 2008 (UTC) Maple Syrup and Blueberries, as well as some organic farming related things. OptimistBen (talk) 01:35, 18 April 2008 (UTC) You'll find me around organic farming. Ecoleetage (talk) 23:09, 4 July 2008 (UTC) I'm here to lend a hand. Mayorofrosharon (I am her to help with Wiki project Ag im a member of the Texas FFA Area 3 District 6 ) 22:31, 2 October 2008 (UTC) Daniel Christensen (I have made about 8 agriculture-related articles just in the past couple weeks which were non-existant. I strongly believe there is work to be done to improve Wikipedia's agricultural aspects.) Daniel Christensen (talk) 03:54, 19 October 2008 (UTC) Bewareofdog Bewareofdog 00:42, 23 October 2008 (UTC) (user retired) TightLineWriterWMD (I am here to lead a hand and I love to work on agricultural machinery)TightLineWriterWMD (talk) 17:33, 24 October 2008 (UTC) Dr. Blofeld Very interested in building case studies on here on relative crops by country using LOC material and newer sources especially in Latin America, Asia and Africa. Pl77 I am involved in the Canadian Agriculture sector and will updating agricultural content as much as possible. (user joined 12 February 2009) jrtayloriv (talk · contribs) interested in working on articles related to permaculture, sustainable agriculture, organic horticulture, free range livestock production, etc 04:39, 9 March 2009 (UTC) Mellowdale I am quite interested in the agricultural sector, particularly in the cattle industry as well as forage aspects such as silaging, haying and pasture/range management. I hope to contribute in these areas on Wiki as much as I can, and learn more as well. (user joined 12 April 2009) Minnecologies (talk · contribs) I am interested on working on forestry, forestry, forestry, forestry. Particularly fond of forest hydrology. Located in MN so can get farm, forest, or water pictures at will.00:07, 7 May 2009 (UTC) FrogofTime (talk · contribs) I'm currently studying sustainable/organic agriculture in college, and I will submit all information in that vein that to the project that I can. 11:21, 12 June 2009 (UTC) HkFnsNGA (talk · contribs) California Rare Fruit Growers original member, I wrote the article on Louis Lesser, formerly the biggest grape grower in California. I am interested in desert agriculture and water conservation methods Cerebellum (talk · contribs) (organic farming and small-scale gardening, permaculture) 17:37, 5 December 2009 (UTC) Firesongponies (talk · contribs) intrested in working on small types of livestock such as Rabbits, Ducks, Chicken, along with Ponies and horses. Currently working on getting good breed pics of all amerian rabbit breeds and as many colors as i can. I'm in Iowa so if you need pic i can try to take it. 09:28, 27 December 2009 (UTC) Wwm101 (talk · contribs) I interested in minor and alternative crops, organic farming, and gardening. Handbook3 (talk · contribs) Dank (talk · contribs) Herr Beethoven (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on the Kinder goat article almost exclusively) 19:14, 7 April 2010 (UTC) Kerani (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on animal and animal-medicine centric articles, and on non-US agriculture. My background is in conventional farming (mostly US cattle) but I dabble in a number of ag-related interests.) 01:28, 5 May 2010 (UTC) Sumsum2010 (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on tractor related articles.) 19:01, 16 May 2010 (UTC) Duff (talk · contribs) I work on many plant-related articles. I'm a nursery, dirt, and livestock farmer in desert Central Oregon, with a big home library. 13:54, 19 June 2010 (UTC) Agong1 (talk · contribs · count) (I have a farm in India. Will contribute information from the tropical side of farming.) 14:06, 5 August 2010 (UTC) MicroProp (talk · contribs) (Hello, I am interessted in adding and receiving scientific peer reviewed information in regard to compost tea and and plant disease suppression) Farjad0322 (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on agriculture-articles related to agriculture in Pakistan only...) 01:17, 6 September 2010 (UTC) Cullywilliams (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on articles relating to cattle, pigs, grain, etc. I live on a farm and have some first-hand experience with a good deal of this. I'll try to find resources on anything I add.) 03:06, 28 November 2010 (UTC) Brunswick Dude (talk · contribs) (Interested in Organic Farming, Albanian agronomy and agronomists, agricultural institutions in general. Foragiculture and viticulture in particular). profwsc (talk · contribs) (Interested in agricultural practices, agricultural intensification, environmental impacts, footprints and sustainability.) dyname42 (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on anything dealing with philosophy of agriculture, sustainability, agriculture in development, and urban agriculture) 13:59, 25 July 2011 (UTC) RiceScientist (talk · contribs) (I am interested serving as a resource for accuracy and clarity on topics associated with rice research, production, nutrition and related topics) richard.ohara (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on increasing education about local and state Agriculture and the impact it has on our lives.) 20:31, 7 December 2011 (UTC) Leo Aerts (I am interested in economical beekeeping of solitary bees; especially in ceramic or other sustainable systems; experiences and use of pheromones to attract solitary bees in sanitary safe housings 1:39 AM. Saturday, December 31, 2011 (UTC) Anjwalker (talk · contribs) (I keep poultry and I am interested in increasing the coverage of poultry.) 10:19, 5 January 2012 (UTC) Justlettersandnumbers (talk · contribs) (breeds, biodiversity, olives, etc.) 17:18, 17 January 2012 (UTC) Coreyo1 (talk · contribs) (I work on global smallholder farmer issues and specialize in agriculture and environmental science and policy.) 11:14, 9 February Ways to contribute To do list This list is transcluded from the to do page, to edit, click here Here are some tasks you can do: Article requests: Ensure that every world country has an article on Agriculture in.... Notably Agriculture in Paraguay etc is still missing. Start case studies on specific crop industries by country etc Rice production in Burma etc. The Library of Congress has a lot of public domain text in this area.; create articles for technical terms used in soil sciences. What on Earth is a "fine, mixed, superactive, hyperthermic Pachic Paleustoll" when it's at home? Cleanup: Goose, Peas, Legumes, Barley, Cattle#Oxen, Ecological importance of bees Copyedit: Agriculture Disambiguation: Boar Expand: Agriculture in Burma, Dairy goat, Domestic pig, Gloucestershire Old Spots, Silvopasture, Barley, Loment, Ox, Pig slaughter Infobox: Bean NPOV: Template:Agriculture, Chicken, Domestic pig, Cattle, Agriculture, Poultry farming, Metolachlor, Roundup, Winter sowing, Factory farming Stubs: Fowl, Poultry, Pulpwood, Ox, Kinder (goat) Update: Portal:Agropedia Verify: Agricultural productivity, Domestic Pig, Oats, Barley (especially discussion of 4 row), Agronomy, Garden strawberry Tasks This list is transcluded from the tasks page, to edit it click here. Here are some tasks you can do for WikiProject Agriculture: JOIN! Deploy {{Infobox chicken breed}}, {{Infobox goat breed}}, {{Infobox pig breed}} and {{Infobox sheep breed}} Develop additional infoboxes for other livestock breeds Replace {{Farming}}/{{Agriculture}} with {{portalpar}} Find a solution to the long breed lists on all the "Domesticated ________" pages. Clarify the differences between Legumes, Fabaceae, Beans, and Pulse (legume) Clarify definition of "Agronomy", particularly on Agronomy, Horticulture, and Portal:Agropedia add photographs Update Portal:Agropedia. Improve Template:Agriculture and place it at the top of appropriate articles. A workshop for everyone interested is at Template talk:Agriculture/workspace. Add to and better organize List of agriculture topics. Current projects This list is transcluded from the current projects page, to edit this section click here These are the current projects that the WikiProject Agriculture is working on: Article information Guidelines For an article regarding a species, include a {{taxobox}} but for the individual breeds/cultivars include a breed box or cultivar box if one is available. Cultivar boxes are found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Cultivar infobox Article Alerts Good article nominees 07 Feb 2012 – Large Black (pig) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Dana boomer (t · c); see discussion Articles needing attention Chicken Harvester is a machine, don't take it from me, research it yourself. It's a bizzare machine that catches chickens and cages them. I wanted to learn more, but there is no article. Agriculture in present-day nations and states – please contribute by creating missing Agriculture in country articles Agriculture - copyedit and NPOV Cattle - NPOV and breakout Ox Chicken - NPOV (Corporate farming/ethical issues) Domestic_pig -NPOV (ethics) and deal with breed lists Dairy_goat - NPOV(currently too US-centric) Triticale - validate and wikify, copyedit, check for NPOV, add a cultivar infobox - someone seems to have done a sloppy job of using Harvard referencing, not all of the inline citations have corresponding full citations at the end and none are linked. Barley - validate, reformat, expand Production section, add Agronomy section Legumes, Fabaceae, Bean, Pulse (legume), Loment (stub), and probably all the other legumes. Most of these were tagged for merger into Legumes recently and may be again if we don't fix them. Agronomy, Horticulture, Portal:Agriculture and Agronomy - with respect to the scope of "Agronomy". Roundup, Metolachlor - NPOV Barley#Cultivars - Validate recent taxonomical changes - see our talk page for a starting place Agroforestry - picture placement runs over text Poultry farming - NPOV Factory farming - NPOV Domesticated turkey - See Talk:Domesticated turkey re wrong taxobox - also the name should be Domestic not Domesticated Fixed  – Article is now titled Domestic turkey. Finching (cattle) - Needs to be consulted on merger with Cattle Great grain robbery - NPOV stub. Anyone know anything about "The Russian Grain Deal?" Featured content Guinea pig Shrimp farm Black pepper Butter Cheese Saffron History of saffron Trade and usage of saffron Durian Emu Domestic sheep Milk (currently needs work, especially citations, in order to avoid delisting) Herdwick sheep Agricultural extension Avondale Agricultural Research Station Bees and toxic chemicals Buckeye (chicken) Christmas tree cultivation Colony Collapse Disorder Domestic sheep reproduction Otto Frederick Hunziker Silkie Sebright (chicken) Candidates New articles Please feel free to list your new Agriculture-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page. National Animal Germplasm Program, a USDA program that preserves the genetic material of plants and animals David L. Shirk Ranch, historic ranch located in southeastern Oregon Double-O Ranch, 17,000 acre ranch owned by cattle baron Bill Hanley William "Bill" Hanley, Oregon cattle baron Sod House Ranch, 43,000 acres ranch acquired by Peter French in 1877 P Ranch, home ranch of 19th-century cattle baron Peter French James Cant Ranch Historic District, now part of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument Cucurbita mixta Mulard Marchigiana Hays Converter Norwegian Red American (cattle breed) Derbyshire Gritstone, needs expansion Florida Cracker cattle, decent stub Large White (pig), needs expanding Middle White, stub British Lop, stub Welsh (pig), needs expanding Liberty Link new article, very short needs expanding. Smartstax new article Miniature Texas Longhorn, new article Collaboration and review Peer review Assessment Agricultural philosophy I rewrote this article as the original one was more like a personal reflection. Please review it and let me know what you think. Thanks. Dyname42 (talk) 18:55, 1 August 2011 (UTC) Templates Wikiproject Agriculture Userbox {{User WP Agriculture Userbox}} results in: This user is a member of WikiProject Agriculture {{User Livestock work group}} results in: This user is a member of the WikiProject Agriculture - Livestock task force {{User Beekeeping work group}} results in: This user is a member of the WikiProject Agriculture - Beekeeping task force Project Banner If you find an article that falls under the scope of this project, feel free to add this banner to the top of it's talk page by typing {{WPFarm}}, which will produce the following: For the full usage see: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Agriculture/Project_banner Stub Template For stubs, always use: {{Agri-stub}} or {{bee-stub}} or {{livestock-stub}} or {{cattle-stub}} or {{horse-stub}} or {{sheep-stub}} or {{goat-stub}} or {{poultry-stub}} (upmerged, i.e. it doesn't have it's own category, just its own tag, it's in Category:livestock stubs) {{pig-stub}} or {{domestic-pig-stub}} (upmerged with dual-parentage in Category:livestock stubs and Category:even-toed ungulate stubs) {{forestry-stub}} This tag should be placed at the bottom of the article page (below any categories and templates other than other stub templates). This is in addition to assessing the article as "|class = stub" on the the talk page. If the article is already tagged with {{stub}} replace it with one of the above tags but leave any other appropriate topic specific stub templates. Category:cattle stubs, Category:horse stubs Category:goat stubs and Category:sheep stubs now have dual-parentage, they feed into both Category:mammal stubs (or Category:even-toed ungulate stubs) and Category:livestock stubs, there is no need to list any other Category:biology or Category:Agriculture stubs if you use one of these stub tags. Although upmerged, {{domestic-pig-stub}} also has dual parentage, being upmerged into both Category:livestock stubs and Category:even-toed ungulate stubs. On the other hand, the tags below do not feed into Agriculture categories, do not use these tags in place of an Agriculture stub template above, rather use them together with an Agriculture stub template. For Birds {{poultry-stub}} {{duck-stub}} for ducks {{goose-stub}} for geese {{swan-stub}} for swans {{Anseriformes-stub}} for any other Anatidae (i.e. waterfowl) {{Bird-stub}} or another more specific form for all other birds For Mammals See Mammal stubs {{eventoedungulate-stub}} for most agricultural mammals except cattle, horses and sheep (see above). {{Lagomorph-stub}} for rabbits and hares {{mammal-stub}} generic mammal stub For Plants {{Plant-stub}} generally {{horticulture-stub}} where appropriate {{Legume-stub}} for Family Fabaceae {{Faboideae-stub}} for Sub-family Faboideae (e.g. Pea) {{Poales-stub}} for Order Poales {{grass-stub}} for Grasses {{fruit-stub}} for fruit {{vegetable-stub}} for truck crops Also: {{plant-disease-stub}} and very generally {{botany-stub}}, if needed. Tag with all appropriate non-duplicative stub templates (e.g. don't tag with both {{Legume-stub}} and {{Faboideae-stub}} - only use the more specific {{Faboideae-stub}} if it applies), as these assist other editors in searching for stubs in topics they are interested in working on and may assist other projects in finding stubs related to their subject area (e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Botany in the case of plants). Additionally, some of these stubs may eventually feed into Agriculture as additional stubs, it will be easier if they are already tagged. Other There is also {{Veterinary-med-stub}} Infoboxes Livestock and Poultry We need suggestions for an infobox probably something like {{Infobox Horse}} and {{Infobox Chickenbreed}}; see ongoing work at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Agriculture/Infobox. Cultivars Use the format at Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Cultivar infobox Navigational boxes {{Cereals}} produces {{Apples}} produces {{USDA agencies}} produces {{Cherries}} produces {{sheep navbox}} produces A cleanup listing for this project is available, updated by WolterBot. More information... Tools Main tool page: toolserver.org Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references Checklinks - Edit and repair external links Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links. Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles. External watchlist Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Agriculture

WikiProject Agriculture Project Information Portal: Agriculture and Agronomy Portal Shortcuts: WP:FARM WP:AG WP:AGRI Banner: {{WPFarm}} Page templates: {{Apples}} {{Cereals}} {{Cherries}} Userbox: {{User WP Agriculture}} Core article: Agriculture Open Tasks: Agriculture tasks Agriculture WikiProject article assessment Agriculture articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 1 1 4 6 12 GA 1 3 13 17 B 6 39 32 60 4 141 C 2 19 31 73 12 137 Start 3 39 129 600 47 818 Stub 3 13 68 894 43 1,021 List 17 32 2 51 Book 1 1 NA 2 2 3 223 230 Assessed 17 112 286 1,681 224 108 2,428 Unassessed 8 3 293 304 Total 17 112 294 1,684 224 401 2,732 Assessment log and Guide to Assessment Help on Editing and Sourcing Articles Find more about Agriculture on other Wikimedia Sites Dictionary definitions Textbooks Quotations Source texts Images and media News stories Learning resources Related WikiProjects Parent project: WikiProject Agriculture Child projects: WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening WikiProject Tree of life Task forces: Ag-ed task force Beekeeping task force Livestock task force Related projects: WikiProject Business WikiProject Companies WikiProject Food and drink WikiProject Forestry WikiProject Veterinary medicine Portals Agriculture and Agronomy Fishing Food Agriculture WikiProject category tree ► Agriculture

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