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[1] [5] [6] [4] The Jamaica Hope was a combination of the British Jersey cow with the Holstein and the Indian Sahiwal breed, and could produce up to an average of 12 litres of milk a day, three times that produced by other cattle on the island. Lecky's work revolutionized the Jamaican dairy industry, and scientists flocked to Jamaica to see his ...
Founder of modern soil science; coined the term "pedology" W. B. George: 1899–1972: Canada: Kemptville Agricultural School lecturer and chairman of the Fertilizer Advisory Board of Ontario Konstantin Glinka: 1867–1927: Russia: Prominent Russian soil scientist Eugene W. Hilgard: 1833–1916: USA: Father of modern soil science in the USA ...
George Washington Carver (c. 1864 [1] – January 5, 1943) was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. [2] He was one of the most prominent black scientists of the early 20th century.
Fertilizer is a major contribution to agriculture history increasing the fertility of the soil and minimizing nutrient loss. [1] Scientific study of fertilizer was advanced significantly in 1840 with the publication Die organische Chemie in ihrer Anwendung auf Agrikulturchemie und Physiologie (Organic Chemistry in Its Applications to ...
The early concepts of soil were based on ideas developed by a German chemist, Justus von Liebig (1803–1873), and modified and refined by agricultural scientists who worked on samples of soil in laboratories, greenhouses, and on small field plots. The soils were rarely examined below the depth of normal tillage.
A century-old wheat collection gives new hope for developing climate- and disease-resistant crops for a secure agricultural future. One Scientist’s 96-Year-Old Wheat Goldmine Is About to ...
Agriculture terraces were (and are) common in the austere, high-elevation environment of the Andes. Inca farmers using a human-powered foot plough. The earliest known areas of possible agriculture in the Americas dating to about 9000 BC are in Colombia, near present-day Pereira, and by the Las Vegas culture in Ecuador on the Santa Elena peninsula.
Contribution to US agricultural industry [ edit ] Swingle worked at the United States Department of Agriculture (1891), investigated subtropic fruits, established laboratories in Florida, became an agricultural explorer, and (after 1902) had charge of crop physiology and breeding investigations.