Agricultural development time line

  • Jan 1, 1000

    Stone hoe with wooden handle

    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.