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Invented the cotton gin to transform cotton to a usable product by removing the cottonseed from the cotton fiber.
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Invented the first iron plow.
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Invented the grain reaper to save labor in cutting, wheat, oats, and similar crops.
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Invented seed planter and cotton planter.
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Improved the iron plow by inventing the steel moldboard plow.
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Invented the corn picker.
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Invented barbed wire. It dramatically changed the livestock industry. Barbed wire tattoos came later.
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Invented the milking machine which changed the dairy industry forever by replacing hand milking.
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Designed the perishable food preservation device, which helped by preserving foods with refrigeration.
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Developed crop rotations and the use of legumes to significantly improve soil fertility in the southern U.S.
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Invented the tractor which came to replace the mule as the main source of horse power.
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Established funding for vocational agriculture in high school
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FFA became a National Organization. A network of teachers guided the establishment of FFA as a team effort to establish a club for boys with similar interests.
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The FFA Creed was adopted.
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FFA became one of the few student organizations to receive a Federal Charter from Congress.
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In 1965, FFA and NFA merged as one.
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For the first time, females were allowed to be part of the FFA.
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Developed the gene gun, a device used for injecting cells with genetic information.
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The FFA-Furture Farmers of America, changed to the National FFA Organization.
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Tractor based GPS systems together with sophisticated GIS uses a wide variety of techniques to gather data such as soil condition, humidity, temperature, and other variables. Also used to control things such as planting intensity. application of fertilizer, and pesticides, watering schedules, etc...
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Robotic milking machines were invented to decrese the amount of labor in the dairy industry. Initial cost was a disadvantage to smaller farmers.