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, 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.

Participants

You can join this project by adding your name on the participants list and placing the {{User WP Agriculture}} template on your user page.

Ways to contribute

To do list

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Here are some tasks you can do: Copyedit: Agriculture Verify: Agricultural productivity, Domestic Pig, Oats, Barley (especially discussion of 4 row), Agronomy Cleanup: Goose, Peas, Legumes, Barley, Cattle#Oxen Expand: Dairy goat, Gloucestershire Old Spots, Silvopasture, Barley, Loment, Ox Disambiguation: Boar Stubs: Fowl, Poultry, Pulpwood, Ox Update: Portal:Agropedia NPOV: Template:Agriculture, Chicken, Domestic pig, Cattle, Agriculture, Poultry farming, Metolachlor, Roundup, Winter sowing Infobox: Bean

Tasks

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Here are some tasks you can do for WikiProject Agriculture: JOIN! Develop an infobox for livestock/poultry 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

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These are the current projects tha 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

Articles needing attention

• 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:Agropedia - 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
• Domesticated turkey - See Talk:Domesticated turkey re wrong taxobox - also the name should be Domestic not Domesticated
• Finching (cattle) - Needs to be consulted on merger with Cattle

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.

• Ulster cherry, new article
• Angela cherry, new stub
• Farm Foundation, new article
• Steppingstone Museum, new article
• Strawberry Fields (2006 film) (Did You Know? for 30 September, 2008)
• Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (Did You Know? for 20 September, 2008)
• Daron Joffe (Did You Know? for 24 September, 2008)
• Farm Credit of New Mexico, new article
• Bruce McAbee, new article
• Rogers Orchards, new article (Did You Know? for 18 August, 2008)
• Bishop's Orchards, new article
• Farm Credit Council, new article
• Potting soil, new version of previously deleted article. (Did You Know? for 11 July, 2008)
• Henry D. Edelman, new article. (Did You Know? for 8 July, 2008)
• Pearl millet
• Livestock Unit. Basic table of easily-found figures. Needs further figures from the original refs, and discussion.
• Eric John Underwood, new article
• Farrer Memorial Trust, new article
• Watermeadow, expanded from very brief stub.
• Cattle crush (Squeeze chute redirects)
• Cattle race (linked from Chute (disambiguation))
• Total Mixed Ration (TMR)
• Holstein (cattle), which has been essentially re-written.
• Mixer-wagon, proto-article
• Lundberg Family Farms

Collaboration and review

Peer review

Assessment

Templates

Wikiproject Agriculture Userbox

{{User WP Agriculture Userbox}} results in:

This user is a member of WikiProject Agriculture

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:

	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.
NA	This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the importance scale.

For the full usage see: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Agriculture/Project_banner

Stub Template

For stubs, always use:

• {{Agri-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 its own category, just its own tag, it's in Cat:livestock stubs)
• {{domestic-pig-stub}} (upmerged with dual-parentage in Cat:livestock stubs and Cat:even-toed ungulate stubs)

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.

For Birds

• {{Galliformes-stub}} for Galliformes (e.g. chickens, turkeys, peafowl, guinea fowl)
• {{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

• {{eventoedungulate-stub}} for most agricultural mammals except cattle, horses and sheep (see above).
• {{Lagomorph-stub}} for rabbits and hares

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}}; see ongoing work at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Agriculture/Infobox.

Cultivars

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

Navigational boxes

v • d • e Apple cultivars Adams Pearmain • Ambrosia • Antonovka • Baldwin • Ben Davis • Blenheim Orange • Braeburn • Bramley • Cameo • Cortland • Cornish Gilliflower • Cox's Orange Pippin • Cripps Pink • Egremont Russet • Elstar • Empire • Esopus Spitzenburg • Flower of Kent • Fuji • Gala • Ginger Gold • Golden Delicious • Granny Smith • Gravenstein • Haralson • Honeycrisp • Idared • James Grieve • Jazz • Jonagold • Jonathan • Karmijn de Sonnaville • Knobbed Russet • Macoun • McIntosh • Mutsu • Newtown Pippin • Norfolk Biffin • Northern Spy • Paula Red • Pink Pearl • Pinova • Ralls Genet • Rambo • Red Delicious • Rhode Island Greening • Ribston Pippin • Rome • Roxbury Russet • Spartan

v • d • e Agencies under the United States Department of Agriculture Secretary of Agriculture · Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment Forest Service · Natural Resources Conservation Service Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agriculture Services Farm Service Agency · Foreign Agricultural Service · Risk Management Agency  · Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development Rural Housing Service  · Rural Utilities Service  · Rural Business-Cooperative Service Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services Food and Nutrition Service · Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety Food Safety and Inspection Service Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics Agricultural Research Service · Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service · Economic Research Service · National Agricultural Library · National Agricultural Statistics Service Under Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Agricultural Marketing Service · Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service · Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration

v • d • e Cherry Cultivars Food Angela • Bada • Balaton • Bing • Chelan • Emperor Francis • Gold • Hudson • Lambert • Lapins • Montmorency • Napoleon • Rainier • Regina • Royal Ann • Sam • Schmidt • Skeena • Stella • Sweetheart • Tieton • Ulster • Van Ornamental Prunus sargentii

A cleanup listing for this project is available, updated by WolterBot. More information...

Agriculture Project Assessment

Agriculture articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 1 2 4 3 10 A 1 1 GA 2 2 7 3 14 B 2 16 13 13 35 79 C 2 2 8 12 Start 3 16 35 73 117 244 Stub 1 5 28 115 113 262 List 4 6 10 Assessed 7 44 88 211 282 632 Unassessed 13 3 5 511 532 Total 7 57 91 216 793 1164

Assessment log and Guide to Assessment Help on Editing and Sourcing Articles

• the assessment department

See also: list of categories

• Category:Agriculture
• Category:WikiProject Agriculture members