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John Deer
Deere developed and improved on the plow by making his out of steel in 1837. The steel plow that Deere developed worked superior in American Midwest soils compared to the cast-iron plow.his plow unlocked the vast fertility of the Midwest soils which ultimately unleashed the incredible yield potential and food producing ability of the American Midwest. -
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Cyrus McCormick
McCormkick’s reaper was able to replace manpower for machine power. In 1851, the reaper won the highest award of the day, the Gold Medal at London’s Crystal Palace Exhibition.is referred to as the ‘Father of Modern Agriculture.’ -
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Eli Whitney Period of life
Eli Whitney is best known for the invention of the cotton gin in 1793 or 1794. Simply put, a cotton gin is a machine that is used to pull cotton fibers from the cotton seed. The cotton gin was a groundbreaking invention in the southern United States, and it had an enormous positive impact on the economies of the southern states in the U.S. -
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Fritz Haber
though co-developed with Carl Bosch, the process of ammonia synthesis bears Haber’s name and is known the world over as the Haber Process. In 1908 Haber developed the technique still used today to take the vast amount of nitrogen available in the atmosphere and convert it into nitrogen that plants can use. -
George Harrison Shull
Considered the father of hybrid corn, Shull began his experiments in 1905 and centered on inheritance in corn. These experiments provided the basis for hybrid corn. Although it was ground breaking research, it would not be until 1922 before hybridized corn was made commercially available. Shull founded the journarl of Genetics and served as a Professor of Botany and Genetics at Princeton University. -
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Henry A. Wallace
Vice President of the United States, Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of Commerce, and other distinguished roles. Wallace was considered an active Secretary of Agriculture and his Department of Agriculture oversaw the creation and development of the food stamp and school lunch programs.Wallace ordered slaughtering pigs and plowing up cotton fields in rural America to drive the price of these commodities back up in order to improve American farmers’ economic situation. -
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Rachel Carson
Carson’s book Silent Spring. Published in 1962, the book was a landmark event in the history of the environmental movement. Carson focused the book on pesticides and their use in agriculture, and argued that those chemicals were dangerous to the environment, wildlife, and humans. -
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Norman Borlaug
Borlaug is credited with saving hundreds of millions to lives from starvation. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work on the world’s food supply, Borlaug is known for his highly successful wheat breeding and wheat research programs in Mexico. -
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Robert Fraley
He and his research team at Monsanto indicate they have found a method of creating transgenic plants by using a pathogenic bacterium, Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Fraley has contributed to years of agricultural development through a number of significant activities, including authoring more than 100 publications and patent applications relating to technical advances in agricultural biotechnology.
