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Crop Rotation
THe secret to eliminating the fallow lay in alternating grain with nitrogen-storing crops. Farmers developed very sophistiated ways of doing this. -
Tenant farming 1700
Financed by the big land owners tenant farmers were able to build fenced fields, built drains, and improved soil with fertilizers -
Enclosure
People argued that innovating agriculturalists needed to enclose and consolidate their scattered holdings into compact, fenced-in fields. -
Jethro Tull
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. -
More Animals
More animals meant more manure for fertilizer and therefore more grain for bread and porridge. -
Cornelius Vermuyden
Directed one large drainage project in Yorkshire and another in Cambridgeshire. Wilderness was converted into great farmland in England -
Drainage and Water Control
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. -
Heavy manuring and using a wide variety of crops
Because of this, farmers in the Low Countries were very well established. -
Heavy Manuring and a Wide Variety of Crops
Agriculture in the lowlands was very established by the middle of the eighteenth century because of this. -
Population Growth
Population growth in the golden age for the dutch in the seventeenth century allowed Dutch peasants with very large markets for their crops. -
Proletarianization
Transformation of large numbers of small peasant farmers into landless rural wage earners.