American Society of Baking
Industry Related Databases

Members of ASB can click on the following links that will connect them to important agricultural databases and other sites related to the baking industry (i.e. trade, government, nutrition, etc). All of these are linked through BIIN.

CURRENCY EXCHANGE

FOOD, NUTRITION AND FOOD SAFETY

FUTURES AND OPTIONS

INTERNATIONAL

MISCELLANEOUS

U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

WEATHER

• Chicago Board of Trade - Where grain and financial futures are traded
  
• Chicago Board Options Exchange - securities options market
  
• Chicago Mercantile Exchange - The World's Largest Marketplace
  
• CNN Financial News - Commodities
  
• Commodity reports
  
• Commodity Traders Advice - give you access to end-of-day update files on all futures and options commodities traded on U.S.markets , Futures market analysis and specific daily trading recommendations, agriculture weather.
  
• Freese-Notis Weather- timely world weather reports
  
• Futures & Options Trading Group- an Introducing Broker - includes links to lots of futures and options information.
  
• Futures & Options World - News & Information from the leading international journal for futures, options and commodity derivative markets.
  
• Futures 101 - An understandable introduction to commodities, with many explanations, examples, facts, and trivia.
  
• Futures and Options Daily End of Day Quotes & Market Signals - Daily Futures and Options Quotes, market news and trading signals.
  
• Harris-Mann, Inc.- A service that specializes in medium to long-range weather forecasts for U.S. & International Agriculture, plus detailed Elliott Wave analysis on Agricultural Commodities and other markets.
  
• Historical Commodity Price Data
  
• Historical Futures Price Data
  
• Holt's Option Market Reports
  
• INO: Charts & Data - Daily and Intra-day charts and data on the major global futures markets
  
• Investment News Online- site for futures industry.
  
• London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) - third largest Financial Derivatives Exchange in the world
  
• QuoteCom Weather for Commodity Traders
  

• Consumer Information Center
  
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans
  
• Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition
  
• International
  
• National Agricultural Library
  
• National Food Safety Database
  
• USDA Home Page

• Agriculture, Department of
  
• Consumer Information Center
  
• Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition
  
• National Agricultural Library
  
• Nutrient Data Bank Bulletin Board
  
• Census Bureau, U.S.
  
• Centers for Disease Control
  
• Commerce, Department of
  
• Environmental Protection Agency
  
• Export-Import Bank of the U.S.
  
• Food and Drug Administration
  
  • Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
    
• Government Printing Office
  
• Health and Human Services Department
  
• International Trade Commission
  
• National Ag. Library, FDA/USDA Food Labeling Info. Center
  
• National Insitutes of Health
  
• National Institute of Standards, Technology
  
• U.S. Trade Representative
  
• White House Office

• Agriculture Australia
  
• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
  
• Asian Development Bank
  
• Canada Newswire
  
• European Commission
  
• Foodnet (Canada)
  
• Food and Agriculture Organization
  
• Food Security information and links (Global Watch newsletter)
  
• Institute of Food Technologists - addresses for affiliates around the world
  
• ISO
  
• Mexico's Human Nutrition Institute Homepage - (Spanish introduction with mostly English links)
  
• OAS (Organization of American States)
  
• Statistics Canada
  
• Sweden's Lund University Nutrition and Food Chemistry Department
  
• University of Helsinki, Finland (Food Science)
  
• University of Hohenheim, Germany (Food Science Department)
  
• World Health Organization
  
• World Packaging Organisation
  
• World Trade Orgainsation

• Ed Blonz (has a lot of association and food science links)
  
• C-SPAN
  
• Ted Labuza's Food Law Site
  
• Search Engine Site for French Speakers
  
• Sosland Publishing
  
• Yahoo (Internet Index)

• Interactive Weather Information Network
  
• Organized Weather Links (includes satellite images, forecasts, radar images, and more)
  
• Weather Channel
  
• USA Today Weather
  
• Freese-Notis Weather- timely world weather reports
  
• Harris-Mann, Inc. - A service that specializes in medium to long-range weather forecasts for U.S. & International Agriculture, plus detailed Elliott Wave analysis on Agricultural Commodities and other markets.
  

• Currency Market News
  
• 10 am EST Foreign Exchange Rates
  
• 12 noon EST Foreign Exchange Rates
  
• 24-hour Currency Quotes and Charts - Currency quotes, intra-day dollar charts, daily and weekly dollar and cross-rate charts.
  
• British Pound Exchange Rates
  
• CNN Financial News - Currencies Market
  
• Foreign Exchange Rates - Provides and computes *daily* exchange rates for and between 23 major currencies.
  
• Koblas Currency Converter