This website contains information and documents relating to the issues that our industry deals with. 

From the home page, you can see the most recently published documents in the 'new on the site' dashboard.  From the navigation menu 'Focus Areas', you can select an area of interest to you, then a submenu will appear on the left hand side of the screen with more topics related to that focus area.  In all cases, a page explaining that issue as well as two dashboards will appear to provide you with a wealth of information on that issue.   The 'related documents' dashboard shows all documents related to that issue.   The 'related pages' dashboard shows all other pages on the site related to that issue. You can also see a section on the home page called 'other people are searching for' which shows you a list of 'tags' or keywords that other visitors to the site are interested in.  If you click on one of these tags, it will generate a list of search results that meet that search criteria.

You will also find a 'search' box at the top of each page.  Here you can enter a word and click on 'search' to find all pages and documents on the site, related to the word you searched for.

Alternatively, you can go into the 'advanced search' section, and refine your search even further, by entering a string of words, or identifying which type of document you would like to search on.

If you are interested in receiving alerts when new documents are posted to the site, you can do this in two ways:
- e-mail updates: if you click on the icon 'my e-mail updates', here you can request e-mail alerts to be sent to you whenever new documents are posted that match your search criteria
- RSS feeds: if you prefer noticification to be sent to your RSS reader rather than to your e-mail address then you can do this from by clicking on the RSS icon and setting your criteria.  If you need further information about how RSS works, please click on the the What is RSS? icon.

If you wish to add this site to any one of more of the many social networking sites on the market, you can do this by clicking on the Bookmark icon at the bottom of each page.  A whole range of social networking sites will appear.

Should you wish the text of the webpages to appear larger or smaller, you can click on the AAA button at the top right of your screen.  This will adapt the size of hte characters.

Should you need any help in using this site, please contact webmaster@croplife.org.