5 Farming Technologies That Changed the World

One day you may want to thank the farmer when you start to wear cotton clothes, eat multiparty grains mixed with milk, or fuel into a fuel tank with ethanol mixed.

Almost every aspect of everyday life, from textiles to food and fuel, is promoted by agriculture. Farmers harvest cotton fibers for clothing, grow cows in milk, and grow cereals as food and fuel. They also developed swine fixed in bacon. And turducken? Without farmers, this mysterious turkey, a combination of duck and chicken is also impossible.

So what do you need for food, fuel and clothing for the global population increase? A bit rain, a bit sunny, and a lot of skill. Actually, modern farmers also consult with reference to the old farmhouse yearbook, so there is a possibility to use GPS to track crop production.

In the 1940's, American farmers produced enough farmers to feed 19 people. By the 2000s, this number has increased to 155 [sources: animal's intelligence]. There are five agricultural methods to make this possible.

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Agricultural technology development has a particularly important impact on the change of the agricultural sector. After the Second World War, technology development took place at a very fast pace. With the advance in mechanization and the increase in the input of chemical substances, an increasingly larger scale economy contributes to the rapid growth of the average farm size, and at the same time it leads to a rapid decrease in the number of farms and farms and rural populations. Beginning in 1900 when it relied entirely on the energy of animals, farmers quickly accepted mechanical power (see the column "Mechanization"). By the 1970 's, tractors were primarily replacing animal energy, and mechanical harvesting of agricultural crops (like beets, cotton, tomatoes) became routine in the late 1960' s. Along with the rapid development of cheap chemical fertilizers and pesticides since 1945, progress of breeding of animals and plants in this century has promoted mechanization, increased sales and quality improvement.