Agricultural development time line

  • Stone hoe with wooden handle
    Jan 1, 1000

    Stone hoe with wooden handle

    People would use hoes to make it easer to cultivate fields and to be able to collect crops easer Mesopotamia in the 5th millennium BC.
  • Scythe

    Scythe

    The scythe helped farmers cut and gather there crops faster than cuting them down by hand.
  • John Deere steel plow

    John Deere steel plow

    The John Deere steel plow really helped farmers to be able to work more ground faster.
  • Irrigation

    Irrigation

    Irrigation helped grow better crops and would increse profits.
  • Riding cultivator

    Riding cultivator

    The cultivator really helped farmers work the ground fast and get a nice seed bed for planting crops.
  • Riding Drills and Planters

    Riding Drills and Planters

    With riding drills and planters farmers would no longer have to plant seed by hand.
  • Waterloo Boy

    Waterloo Boy

    The waterloo boy was invented by John Froelich and was the first gasoline powerd tractor.
  • John Deere model "D"

    John Deere model "D"

    The model "D" was John Deeres first production tractor and it had about 30 hores power.
  • First pull type combine

    First pull type combine

    The pull type combine helped speed up harvast and took less manual labor than cuting and gathering crops then thrashing them.
  • Baler

    Baler

    The baler made it easyer to gather and feed hay to livestock.
  • Cotton Picker

    Cotton Picker

    Internatonal harvester invented the first pull type cotton picker wich hellped farmers because it reduced the labor needed.
  • No-tillage

    No-tillage

    No-till is where a farmer wouldn't work the ground befor planting the next crop.
  • Satellite technology

    Satellite technology

    Satellite technology helps farmers plant crops without stiring and they are able to plant more acuretly.