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Hydro Cylinders
The concept for hydraulic cylinders goes to the French mathematician Blaise Pascal. He studied fluids and found out that they don't compress like gases so he had the first concept of the cylinders.
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Steel Bottom Plow
The Steel bottom plow was made and invented by John Deere. A broken pieces at the sawmill gave him the idea. It was a ground breaking idea. John Deere is now one of the most successful company ever.
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First Combine
The First Combine was invented by Hiran Moore and it took a long time to have it widely used. At first it took up to 16 teams of horses but later was pulled by a tractor. It took the straw to heat the boiler and they could harvest 100 acres a day.
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First Tractor Gas
The First Tractor was engineered in a very small village in Clayton County in North Eastern Iowa. It could go both directions witch is the first part of the modern engine. It was the engine mounted on a running steam gear to power it. -
Best Steam Tractor
Daniel Best was frustrated in the time and expense of taking their grain to the trashing mill. It had a 2 cyl 110 belt HP and 230 rpm to speed of 5 mph
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Power Steering
The first power steering gear was applied to the SD-4 tractor in 1953, and it would soon go on heavy-duty trucks. In 1963, R. H. Sheppard committed the company’s manufacturing and engineering to power steering. Over the years the company has been issued more than fifty patents on power steering -
CVT
Was used for Ag purposes in 1955 Fendt introduced the Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) The CVT Transmission has the superior power to ground evidences and makes it so operators can throttle down while speeding up greatly increasing fuel efficiencies Fendt is an AGCO company so all AGCO products can have a CVT. Many other company's have their own versions of the CVT
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Auto Steer
The GPS has come a long ways in its time, it use to be within a few feet to sub inch. John Deere partnered with Stanford to make it not so costly and more effective.
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Automatic PowerShift transmission
Designed to handle high torque and sudden shifts. Can maintain responsive application shift still.
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IVT
Introduced in 2001 John Deere came up with their own Version of the CVT transmission, the IVT (Infinitely Variable Transmission). It is used for seamless transitions in between gears and now you can't have a gear that is two fast yet to slow you can find a speed for every situation
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Case Self Driving Tractor
Case made it for high efficiency, they call it high efficiency farming. It is a concept vehicle and you can use a tablet to control it. their are ways to get a cab for it too.
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X-9 Combine
The X-9 combine make by John Deere uses 20% less fuel and can harvest up to 7,200 bushels and hour on good yielding corn. That is over 7 semi loads!
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Gene Editing
By 2050 people are hoping that there are going to be gene edited crops. Will make it so that scientists will be able to edit specific genes for each crop.
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By the plant crop management
Technology that will measure soil health, moisture, ect. And little nozzles on sprayers so that you only get the plant and use less chemicals.
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Clue to the future
Even though 2050 is a ways away even looking to the past means that farmers will find better ways to do it. Even if nothing is set in stone things will have to change to feed the growing population.
https://www.syngenta-us.com/thrive/research/future-of-farming.html
