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Eli Whitney
Invented the cotton gin to transform cotton to a usable product by removing the cottonseed from the cotton fiber. -
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AGRICULTURAL INVENTIONS
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Thomas Jefferson
Invented the first iron plow. -
Cyrus McCormick
Invented the grain reaper to save labor in cutting, wheat, oats, and similar crops. -
Henry Blair
Invented seed planter and cotton planter. -
John Deere
Improved the iron plow by inventing the steel moldboard plow. -
Edmund Quincy
Invented the corn picker. -
Joseph Glidden
Invented barbed wire. It dramatically changed the livestock industry. Barbed wire tattoos came later. -
Anna Baldwin
Invented the milking machine which changed the dairy industry forever by replacing hand milking. -
Thomas Elkins
Designed the perishable food preservation device, which helped by preserving foods with refrigeration. -
George Washington Carver
Developed crop rotations and the use of legumes to significantly improve soil fertility in the southern U.S. -
Benjamin Holt
Invented the tractor which came to replace the mule as the main source of horse power. -
Smith-Hughes Act
Established funding for vocational agriculture in high school -
National Organization Est.
FFA became a National Organization. A network of teachers guided the establishment of FFA as a team effort to establish a club for boys with similar interests. -
Creed Adopted
The FFA Creed was adopted. -
Federal Charter Received
FFA became one of the few student organizations to receive a Federal Charter from Congress. -
FFA/NFA Merger
In 1965, FFA and NFA merged as one. -
Female Members
For the first time, females were allowed to be part of the FFA. -
John Sanford
Developed the gene gun, a device used for injecting cells with genetic information. -
Name Change
The FFA-Furture Farmers of America, changed to the National FFA Organization. -
(no inventor listed)
Tractor based GPS systems together with sophisticated GIS uses a wide variety of techniques to gather data such as soil condition, humidity, temperature, and other variables. Also used to control things such as planting intensity. application of fertilizer, and pesticides, watering schedules, etc... -
(no inventor listed)
Robotic milking machines were invented to decrese the amount of labor in the dairy industry. Initial cost was a disadvantage to smaller farmers.