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the plow is a fundamental tool that cuts, lifts, and spurns soil to prepare it for planting. Innovations improved its durability, ease of repair( via interchangeable parts) ability to handle thought soils (cast-steel design), and overall effectiveness-transforming farming efficiency and enabling cultivation of new terrains. -
Mechanically plants seeds at controlled spacing and depth improving efficiency and crop uniformity compared to manual sowing. -
Enabled fast, bulk transport of crops, livestock, and supplies opening distant markets and supporting agricultural expansion. -
A machine that combined reaping threshing and winnowing in one operation-radically reducing manual labor and increasing efficiency in grain harvesting. -
These innovations revolutionized soil fertility management-enabling nutrient replenishment at scale, boosting crop yields, supporting dense populations, and launching the modern fertilizer industry. -
Farmer-traders previously had to unload grain by hand, lugging sacks laboriously from boats or wagons. Dart and Dunbar revolutionized the process with a steam-powered bucket elevator that mechanically scooped loose grain from ship hulls and lifted it into storage towers. This dramatically accelerated unloading and storage shifting grain handling from a slow labor-intensive task to a rapid mechanized system. -
Heat treatment of milk and other liquids to kill pathogens improving food safe and shelf life -
Revolutionized fencing by providing sheep, effective livestock containment, enabling better lan management and property delineation -
Tractors made a HUGE change in the farming industry it replaced a animal labor for plowing, planting, and hauling, greatly increasing farming effficienct and scale -
Assembly lines allowed mass production of farming equipment like tractors and combines reducing costs and making machinery more accessible