AGRN 338: Weed ID and Control
The best place to begin your search for credible information sources is the search box on the library's home page. This simple, powerful discovery tool will help you find physical items in our library (e.g. books, DVDs, reference materials) and valuable content from scholarly journals, trade publications, popular magazines, and newspapers.
Using the library's search box allows you to search multiple databases and thousands of journals all at once.
The links below can be used for searching just one database at a time, as another way to narrow your search results.
Specialized Databases
- Turfgrass Information File This link opens in a new windowTGIF provides access to over 100,000 published resources about turfgrass. After clicking the link, you must accept terms and conditions to connect to the database.
- AGRICOLA This link opens in a new windowCitations to agricultural literature provided by National Agricultural Library.
- Gardening and Horticulture This link opens in a new windowAcademic journals and magazines focused on practical methods and scientific theory of horticulture.
Online Journals
- Crop ScienceCrop Science is a top international journal in fields of crop breeding and genetics, crop physiology, and crop production.
- Golf Course IndustryA magazine dedicated to the golf course industry. The link leads directly to an article about herbicide resistant weeds.
- Weed TechnologyAccess to this scholarly online journal is provided by SUNY Cobleskill library, and will require a Coby username and password.
Weblinks
- PLANTS DatabaseThe PLANTS Database from the National Resources Conservation Service provides standardized information about plants of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, crop information, and much more. This is a very useful resource for background information and distribution of weed species.
- Cornell Cooperative ExtensionCornell University Cooperative Extension provides research about management practices for many different landscape systems in NY.
- Weed Management in Agriculture IPMThis is a site created by Cornell University about integrated pest management with a page on weed management in agriculture.
- Management Practices for NY State Golf CoursesThis is a PDF about best practices for managing golf courses in New York created by Cornell in partnership with other organizations.
- Eastern New York Commercial HorticultureThis site provides information about weed management in commercial horticultural operations in New York.
- Field Crops Weed Identification GuideWeed ID guide for field crops.
- Invasive Agricultural Plants Upstate NYA handout about invasive agricultural plants in upstate NY.