Educational Resources

We offer online educational materials for students, educators and anyone interested in the agricultural sciences.

Outreach Activities

ARS employees and locations offer outreach activities to specific groups as well as to the general public.

National Agricultural Library

The National Agricultural Library (NAL) is a unique part of ARS and hosts a wealth of online information.

Archives

You can access archives of several years of searchable news stories, Agricultural Research magazine articles, and other materials for nonspecialists.

Publications

We provide links to documents, NAL, and other resources to help you find publications on agriculture and related sciences.

Manuscripts

You can search our huge manuscript database (TEKTRAN) of brief pre-publication notices of recent ARS research results.

Software

Mainly of interest to other researchers, we offer certain software and models for use in predicting erosion, pest migration, crops growth, analyze watersheds, and more.

Datasets

We provide collections of online data, mainly of interest to scientists and other specialists, on chemistry, biochemistry, food and nutrition, genetics, germplasm, natural resources and systematics.

Freedom of Information Act

Here we explain how to request documents — other than those online or otherwise publically available — from ARS and the other agencies that make up USDA's Research, Education, and Economics mission area through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).