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Cotton Gin
Made by Eli Whitney, this device pulled the cotton seed out of the cotton fiber, by machine. -
Iron Plow
Invented by, Thomas jefferson, this made plowing up land easier -
Grain Reaper
Cyrus McCormick invented the grain reaper to save labor in cutting wheat, oats, and similar crops. -
Seed Planter
Henry Blair -
Steel Moldboard Plow
John Deere improved on the iron plow by making this -
Corn Picker
Edmund Quincy -
Barbed wire
Joseph Gidden- Dramatically changed raising livestock. Barbed wire tattoos came much later -
Milking machine
Anna Baldwin-changed the dairy industry by making milking easier -
Perishable Food preservation
Thomas Elkins- helped preserve food -
Soil improvement and crop Rotation
George Washington Carver developed crop rotation and the use of legumes. -
Tractor
Ben Holt- No longer horse drawn -
Smith Hudges
Act established funding for vocaational agriculture in high school -
Future farmers Club
first state to have future farmers club for boys -
FFA
FFA became a national organization. -
Creed
The FFA creed was made official -
NFA
New Farmers of America for black students -
FFA Student organazation
Became one of few student organizations to recieve federal charter from congress -
FFA and NFA
FFA and NFA merged -
Girls in FFA
Girls were allowed in FFA -
Gene Gun
John Sanford developed a device for injecting cells with genetic information -
Name changed
No longer future farmers of america, now just ffa -
Robotic Milking Machine
Reduction in labor -
GPS technology
tractor based GPS systems together with sophisticated GIS
