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Enclosure Act
The abolishment of the open-field system. Any common land that was available was now lost to the common people -
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge advocates the potato
The Royal Society of London advocated for people to use the potato as a crop due to its superiority in the weather and climate. The potatoes were grown underground and could feed whole families. They called this "poor peoples food". -
Norfolk Four Course Crop Rotation
A type of crop rotation that was a 4-year system and had the absence of a fallow year. It also had an emphasis on fodder crops for feed. -
Dutch and Rotherham swing (wheel-less) plough
Joseph Foljambe built the Rotherham Swing plow, called that as it had no depth wheels. This plow was more efficient and lighter than any at this time. -
Development of a National Market
In 1663 market regulations were loosened. The loosening of market regulations led to a national market for wheat by 1700. After this, the national market in England only grew. -
Land Conversion, Drainage, and Reclamation Programs
This is when the English and other nations drained the marches and fens in order to provide arable land. The Dutch were masters of canal building, drainage, and land reclamation technology. Water meadows were finally stabilized to allow earlier pasturing of livestock. -
Jethro Tull and the Seed Drill
Jethro Tull was the one to innovate using horses over oxen, he also created the seed drill which was a more efficient method to sow seeds than how farmers had done previously. -
Charles “Turnip” Townsend
When he went to Holland, he learned about crop rotation and the use of turnips and clovers in it. He brought this invention back to Norfolk and advocated using turnips in crop rotation. -
Robert Bakewell, Thomas Coke, and the development of Selective Breeding
These were the first two to discover and practice selective breeding. They used inbreeding in order to stabilize certain characteristics and remove genetic diversity. Then they bred tho animals with others to try and get the most preferred characteristics. -
Arthur Young
He wrote books about his experiments in agriculture and about agriculture in England in general. His writing was significant in the agricultural field.