Overview

Other Links

• Asparagus, Vegetables and Melons, ERS, USDA.
• Asparagus Fact Sheet, Ohio State University Extension, Bulletin 826 - Useful and practical information about asparagus production, management and marketing to growers over a wide geographical area across the United States and Canada. It focuses primarily on the northeast, Midwest, and southeastern states.
• Asparagus Fact Sheet - Link to the Dole Food Company Inc., Fruit and Vegetable Encyclopedia. Part of Dole Food Company’s Nutrition and Health Program. This program is recognized in the United States and throughout the world as a leader in children’s nutrition education and the 5 A Day for Better Health Program. For adults and children, information on the history of asparagus as a food plant, fun ways to eat it, recipes, selection and storage, packaging and transportation and a number of other topics.
• Asparagus Fact Sheet, University of California Small Farm Center, USDA Cooperative State Research Service - Easy to plant and care for, asparagus comes back every year (with minimal labor except for harvesting). Its high value brings early income to direct marketers before harvest of other vegetables or (as a good complementary crop) strawberries.
• Asparagus Rootstock Supplier Shasta Nursery - Asparagus rootstock is grown in Susanville, California, on sandy loam soil. It is harvested in two segments: one in winter for retail sales and the other in spring for wholesale growers. Rootstock care and growing instructions are provided on the Web site.
• Asparagus Variety Performance, Malheur Experiment Station, Oregon State University - Trial of five commercial varieties for commercial production in Oregon.
• California Asparagus Commission - The site is intended to provide information to consumers, marketers and industry people. It includes a section for children, as well as sections that include a FAQ, recipes, growing tips, and simple grower profiles Links to all relevant USDA sites.
• California Commodity Profile: Asparagus, Agricultural Issues Center, University of California, 2002.
• China Agricultural Data, Agricultural Issues Center, University of California, 2001 - Information on production, cost of production and trade.
• Diseases of Asparagus Fact Sheet, Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Ontario, Canada. 
• Fresh-Cut Asparagus, Fresh Cut magazine, 2006 - Sheppard Farms' asparagus is grown in New Jersey and packaged in microwavable bags or trays.
• Fruits and Vegetables: Enhanced Federal Efforts to Increase Consumption Could Yield Health Benefits for Americans, GAO Report Number 02-657, 2002.
• Growing Asparagus in Minnesota, University of Minnesota Extension Service, 2005 - A production guide. This site has information on pest management, planting, harvesting, varieties, weeds, diseases, irrigation and nutrient requirements. The Extension Service INFO-U contact line has resources for small-acreage growers and other ag-business resources.
• Growing Asparagus in Oregon, Oregon State University Extension - A production guide that covers: seeding transplanting, fertilizers, weeds, diseases, harvesting, handling, storage and pest control.
• Individual Crops-Asparagus-This web site provides links to information on asparagus from University Coopoerative Extension or IPM programs in Arizona, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina and Ohio.
• Jersey Asparagus Farms, Inc.- This company produces Jersey male hybird seed and sells automated grading machinery, planting and harvesting equipment. The site has a commercial planting guide and similar information.
• Pendelton's Country Market (Kansas) Rootstocks - Good varietal information on rootstocks suited to the Midwestern United States.
• PlantFacts, Ohio State University - This Web site provides a full-text search engine of all extension and academic department information from all land-grant universities in the United States. Additionally, there are significant image and video databases, an FAQ database and a glossary.
• Vegetable Research and Information Center, University of California Cooperative Extension.
• Washington Asparagus Growers - This organization promotes Washington asparagus as a product of unsurpassed quality and nutrition, and funds research that addresses needs of the industry, as well as provides oversight and action to promote favorable trade practices. Sections on growing asparagus, international markets and competition, buyer specification, handling and storage.

Links checked February 2008.