Wikipedia:WikiProject Agriculture

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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.


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[edit] Goals

  • Generally improve the standard and factual accuracy in articles, particularly regarding POV in animal husbandry.
  • Reclaim credibility by stripping down articles to facts about the topics.

[edit] Scope

Agriculture can be divided into a few large groups:

[edit] Crop Production

[edit] Livestock Production

[edit] Aquaculture

[edit] Milk Production (Dairy)

[edit] Forest Products and Forest management

[edit] Mechanical

(New section? Same section but call it "Equipment" or something?)

[edit] Agricultural Input Products

  • Crop Protection Chemicals
  • Feed supplements

[edit] Diseases & Pests

  • In Crops
  • In Livestock

[edit] Ag. Support Organizations

[edit] Governmental Bodies and NGO's

[edit] 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

[edit] Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Agriculture: edit · history · watch · refresh

[edit] Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

  1. 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)
  2. 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)
  3. John Carter 13:59, 10 October 2007 (UTC) - not necessarily my specialty, but will help where I can.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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)
  8. ike9898 (talk · contribs) Agricultural byproducts. 12:50, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
  9. Arknascar44 (talk · contribs) I'll help out with the infobox templates for the project :) ( arky ) 01:55, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
  10. WAS 4.250 18:03, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
  11. 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)
  12. Chris Chittleborough AKA CWC 08:28, 31 October 2007 (UTC) I live on my family's farm in the Australian Wheat Belt near Naracoorte.
  13. Plantscience (talk · contribs) BS in horticulture and MS in plant science. Willing to help improve areas related to horticulture.
  14. VanTucky Talk 06:23, 5 November 2007 (UTC) Mostly livestock and sustainable agriculture
  15. BlindEagletalk~contribs 17:47, 6 November 2007 (UTC) Own and operate a sheep and llama farm.
  16. Cgoodwin: Breed sheep and cattle in NSW. Can help with photos. Cgoodwin 06:04, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
  17. Anthere (talk) trying to collect wikibooks in agriculture
  18. 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)
  19. George moorey (talk) want to improve agripedia
  20. Mostly assessments and GA reviews. Juliancolton The storm still blows... 18:43, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
  21. --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)
  22. PurdueAG_05 Agronomist with knowledge on major US field crops and weeds. 05 18:44, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
  23. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 09:35, 19 March 2008 (UTC) Agricultural statistics for UK and EU.
  24. Zharmad (talk) 18:31, 25 March 2008 (UTC) Maple Syrup and Blueberries, as well as some organic farming related things.
  25. OptimistBen (talk) 01:35, 18 April 2008 (UTC) You'll find me around organic farming.

[edit] Wikiproject Agriculture Userbox

{{User WP Agriculture Userbox}}

results in:

 This user is a member of
WikiProject Agriculture



[edit] Departments

[edit] Articles

[edit] Articles needing attention

[edit] Featured content

[edit] Candidates

[edit] 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.

[edit] Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week
Peer review
Assessment

[edit] Templates

[edit] 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 its talk page by typing {{WPFarm}}, which will produce the following:

Agriculture
Agropedia Portal
This article is within the scope of the WikiProject Agriculture, which collaborates on articles related to agriculture. To participate, you can edit this article or visit the project page for more details.
NA This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale.
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For the full usage see: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Agriculture/Project_banner

[edit] Portal, Navigation box, Link page

[edit] Stub Template

For stubs, always use:

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.

Cat:cattle stubs, Cat:horse stubs Cat:goat stubs and Cat:sheep stubs now have dual-parentage, they feed into both Cat:mammal stubs (or Cat:even-toed ungulate stubs) and Cat:livestock stubs, there is no need to list any other Cat:biology or Cat:Agriculture stubs if you use one of these stub tags. Although upmerged, {{domestic-pig-stub}} also has dual parentage, being upmerged into both Cat:livestock stubs and Cat: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.

[edit] For Birds

[edit] For Mammals

[edit] For Plants

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.

[edit] Other

There is also {{Veterinary-med-stub}}

[edit] Infoboxes

[edit] Livestock and Poultry

We need suggestions for an infobox probably something like {{Infobox Horse}}; see ongoing work at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Agriculture/Infobox.

[edit] Cultivars

Use the format at Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Cultivar infobox

[edit] Other

{{Cereals}} produces

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Cereals and pseudocereals
Amaranth · Barley · Buckwheat · Fonio · Job's Tears · Kañiwa · Maize (Corn) · Millet · Oat · Quinoa · Rice · Rye · Sorghum · Spelt · Triticale · Teff · Wild rice · Wheat


{{Apples}} produces

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Apple cultivars


{{USDA agencies}} produces

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Agencies under the United States Department of Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture · Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
Under Secretary of Agriculture for
Natural Resources and Environment		 United States Department of Agriculture Seal
Under Secretary of Agriculture for
Farm and Foreign Agriculture Services
Under Secretary of Agriculture for
Rural Development
Under Secretary of Agriculture for
Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services
Under Secretary of Agriculture for
Food Safety
Under Secretary of Agriculture for
Research, Education, and Economics
Under Secretary of Agriculture for
Marketing and Regulatory Programs

[edit] Categories

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Agriculture/Categories for a detailed list of categories

[edit] Resources

Find more about Agriculture on Wikipedia's sister projects:
Dictionary definitions
Textbooks
Quotations
Source texts
Images and media
News stories
Learning resources

[edit] Taskforces

[edit] Related WikiProjects

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory

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