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The great depression of British agriculture occurred during the late nineteenth century and is usually dated from 1873 to 1896. [1] Contemporaneous with the global Long Depression, Britain's agricultural depression was caused by the dramatic fall in grain prices that followed the opening up of the American prairies to cultivation in the 1870s and the advent of cheap transportation with the ...
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At first agriculture in Great Britain, through its superior productivity, was able to weather and even thrive following the repeal of the Corn Laws, contrary to the dire warnings of the landowners who had warned of immediate agricultural ruin. By the 1870s, the global price of grain began to fall dramatically following the opening up of the ...
The Agrarian History of England and Wales is an academic work, published by Cambridge University Press, which in 8 volumes covers the period from the origins to 1939. [1] ...
(1868) The Agricultural Labourer (1869) Sanitary Works (1870) Sewage Farming (1871) Sewage the Fertilizer of Land, and Land the Purifier of Sewage (1872) Underdrainage and the steps taken to develop and maintain its effects (1873) Intermittent Downward Filtration and Irrigation (1874) Sanitary Science applied to Towns and Rural Districts
The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland (originally The Acre-Ocracy of England) is a reference work published by John Bateman in four editions between 1876 and 1883, giving brief details of individuals owning land in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to a total of 3,000 acres (1,200 ha) or valuation of £3000 annual income.
Agriculture in England is today intensive, highly mechanised, and efficient by European standards, producing about 60% of food needs with only 2% of the labour force. It contributes around 2% of GDP .
The British Agricultural Revolution included innovations in technology such as Jethro Tull's seed drill which allowed greater yields, while the process of enclosure, which had been altering rural society since the Middle Ages, became unstoppable.