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Agriculture Events

By jordanray1010

  • 1997

    1997
    First weed and insect resistant are available commercially

  • 1819-25

    1819-25
    U.S. food canning industry established

  • 1849

    1849
    mixed chemical fertilizers sold commercially

  • 1858

    1858
    mason jars, used for home canning, were invented

  • 1870s

    1870s
    silos and deep-well drilling come into use

  • 1881

    1881
    Hybridized corn produced

  • 1892

    1892
    1st gasoline tractor was built by John Froelich

  • 1928

    1928
    Otto Rohwedder introduced his bread slicing machine

  • 1941-45

    1941-45
    Frozen food populized

  • 1942

    1942
    Spindle cotton picker produced commercially

  • 1959

    1959
    Mechanical tomato harvester developed

  • 1968

    1968
    96% of cotton harvested mechanically

  • 1970

    1970
    no tillage agriculture populized

  • 1970

    1970
    One farmer supplies 47.7 persons

  • 1980

    1980
    One farmer supplies 75.7 persons

  • 1980s

    1980s
    More farmers use no-till or low-till methods to curb erosion

  • 1989

    1989
    Sale of farm equipment rebounds

  • 1990

    1990
    One farmer supplies 100 persons

  • 1990s

    1990s
    Information technology and precision techniques increasingly used in agriculture

  • 1994

    1994
    Farmers begin using satellite technology to track and plan their farming practices