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Made by Eli Whitney, this device pulled the cotton seed out of the cotton fiber, by machine.
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Invented by, Thomas jefferson, this made plowing up land easier
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Cyrus McCormick invented the grain reaper to save labor in cutting wheat, oats, and similar crops.
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Henry Blair
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John Deere improved on the iron plow by making this
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Edmund Quincy
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Joseph Gidden- Dramatically changed raising livestock. Barbed wire tattoos came much later
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Anna Baldwin-changed the dairy industry by making milking easier
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Thomas Elkins- helped preserve food
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George Washington Carver developed crop rotation and the use of legumes.
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Ben Holt- No longer horse drawn
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Act established funding for vocaational agriculture in high school
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first state to have future farmers club for boys
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FFA became a national organization.
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The FFA creed was made official
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New Farmers of America for black students
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Became one of few student organizations to recieve federal charter from congress
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FFA and NFA merged
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Girls were allowed in FFA
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John Sanford developed a device for injecting cells with genetic information
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No longer future farmers of america, now just ffa
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Reduction in labor
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tractor based GPS systems together with sophisticated GIS