Ag Links - Photo and Video Resources

VIDEO RESOURCES

Videos about animals

• Ag in the Classroom - Virtual Tours
• ARKive - videos showing endangered species
• Canadian Virtual Farm Tours - includes interactive videos on several poultry and livestock farms.
• Discover Dairy - videos covering animal care, milk, environment, community and nutrition
• Drovers - video news reports.
• Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center - Archived Webcasts covering air quality, regulations, manure topics, emerging issues, small farms and environmental planning
• HorseQuest - Instructional Videos
• Pork Checkoff - videos on animal well-being, careers, environment and consumer topics
• Oklahoma State University - Cow-Calf Corner with Dr. Glenn Selk video podcast archive
• Purdue University - Beef Center videos
• Ranch TV - Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service video series for beef producers
• University of Tennessee - The Tennessee Cattle Lane video series for beef producers
• Veterinarians on Call - a number of videos showing veterinary care

  Videos about crops and plants
  

• ARKive - videos showing endangered species
• Canadian Virtual Farm Tours - includes interactive videos on grain, fruit and vegetable farms.
• K-State Research and Extension - Kansas healthy yards videos
• National Corn Growers Association - links to many videos about American farmers, sustainability, ethanol
• University of Nebraska Extension - Backyard Farmer videos
• North Carolina Cooperative Extension Forestry - forestry videos
  
• University of Wisconsin - plant breeding educational videos
• University of Vermont - video clips about organic crop farming

  Videos about multiple topics
  

• America's Heartland - over 700 videos on American agriculture
• New Mexico Ag in the Classroom - Field Trip! Video Series covers animal, dairy and crop topics
• Oklahoma State University - Sunup show includes many topics and archived shows
• Schooltube.com - FFA Channel - informational videos and FFA convention
• YouTube FFA Channel

  Videos about pest management

  Government video sources
  

• FedFlix - Over 8,700 U.S. government films in the public domain.
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) - Images and galleries, including video links
• USDA Agricultural Research Service - Video archive
• USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service - food safety videos
• U.S. Geological Service - Video collections. Search by topic or keyword.

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PHOTOS

State and regional sources

• Agriculture in the Classroom - Saskatchewan - photos on many ag-related topics available for educational, non-commercial use
• ARKive - photos of endangered species
• Ohio Department of Natural Resources - Photo galleries include hunting, fishing, wildlife, activities and historical.
  
• Forestry Images - forest pests, trees, plants, silvicultural practices, urban forestry, wildlife
• Ohio Department of Natural Resources - Common Ohio trees
• Ontario Farm Animal Council - animal agriculture photos
• Texas A&M AgriLife Extension - more than 4,000 agriculture-related photos

  Federal government sources

• Bureau of Land Management - Flickr photo library
• Federal Emergency Management Agency - photo library
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) - Images and Galleries
• NASA - Visible Earth
• National Cancer Institute - Visuals Online. Includes general biomedical and science-related images. Type "food" in the search engine for photos of a number of food items.
• National Human Genome Research Institute - Press photo gallery includes animals, science, and technology photos and illustrations
• National Institutes of Health - Flickr image gallery
• National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - Photo library
• NOAA - Ocean Explorer Gallery
• National Park Service - Digital image archives
• - Yellowstone National Park - Yellowstone's Photo Collection
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory - image gallery
• U.S. Antarctic Program - photo library
• USDA Flickr Photostream
• USDA Agricultural Research Service - image gallery and photo library archive
• USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service - FSIS images covering food safety issues.
• USDA Forest Service - Find-a-Photo - thousands of copyright free wildlife, fish, wildflower and environmental education photographs, donated by Forest Service employees, partners and volunteers. These photographs cannot be used for profit.
• USDA Grain Inspection, Packers & Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) - Commodity image gallery. Use categories to view images and descriptions of grains, oilseeds, beans, peas and lentils.
• USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service - Photo gallery. Note: Use search for a specific word.
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) - National Digital Library
  
• USFWS - Arizona Ecological Service - Image library includes amphibians, birds, fish, invertebrates, mammals, plants and reptiles.
• U.S. Geological Service (USGS) - Photo collections. Search by topic or keyword.
  
• USGS - Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter
  
• USGS - Wetland and Aquatic Reserch Center - Multimedia

  Industry sources
  

• Beef Checkoff - beef recipes and photography, including cuts of meat
• Pork Checkoff - photo library with a variety of hog-related photography

  University sources
  

• Oklahoma State University - Photo database. Select the "agriculture" category, then choose a topic or search by keyword.
• Michigan State University - Kellogg Biological Station: Long-Term Ecological Research image gallery

Photo credit: Staff photo by Nancy Crombie.

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