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THe secret to eliminating the fallow lay in alternating grain with nitrogen-storing crops. Farmers developed very sophistiated ways of doing this.
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Financed by the big land owners tenant farmers were able to build fenced fields, built drains, and improved soil with fertilizers
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People argued that innovating agriculturalists needed to enclose and consolidate their scattered holdings into compact, fenced-in fields.
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He was an important English innovator. He tried to devolop better farming methods through experimental research. He advocated sowing seed with drilling equipment rather than scattering it by hand.
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More animals meant more manure for fertilizer and therefore more grain for bread and porridge.
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Directed one large drainage project in Yorkshire and another in Cambridgeshire. Wilderness was converted into great farmland in England
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England received instruction from the Dutch on water control. Because the Low Lands are below sea level they had been controlling water for a while and were experts on it.
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Because of this, farmers in the Low Countries were very well established.
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Agriculture in the lowlands was very established by the middle of the eighteenth century because of this.
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Population growth in the golden age for the dutch in the seventeenth century allowed Dutch peasants with very large markets for their crops.
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Transformation of large numbers of small peasant farmers into landless rural wage earners.