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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin to transform cotton to a usable poduct by removing the cottonseed from the cotton fiber.
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Thomas Jefferson inventor of the first iron plow
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Cyrus McCormick invented the reaper to save labor in cutting, wheat, oats, and simiple crops.
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Henry Blair
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Henry Blair
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John Deere improved the iron plow by inventing the steel moldboard plow
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Edmund Quincy
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Joseph Glidden dramatically changed raising livestock. Barbed wire tattoos came much later
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Anna Baldwin changed the dairy the dairy industry by inventing a machine to replace hand milking
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Thomas Elkins designed a device that helped with the task of preserving perishable foods by way of refrigeration
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George Washington Carver developed crop rotations and the use of legumes to significantly improve soil fertility in the U.S. south
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Ben Holt invented the tractor the tractor which came to replace mules as the sources of power (horse power)
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John Sanford developed a device for injecting cells with genetic information
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Established funding for vocational agriculture in high school
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A network of teachers guided the establishment of FFA as a team effort to establish a club for boys with similar farm interests
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The FFA creed was adopted
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Became one of a few student organizations to recieve a Federal Charter from Congress
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FFA and NFA Merged
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Girls were allowed to join FFA for the first time
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FFA changed their name
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Improved Milikng Machine from earlier
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Tractor based GPS systems
