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One of the three seeds must be set aside for the next planting season, the remaining two either consumed by the grower, or for livestock feed. In parts of Europe the seed ratio during the 9th century was merely 1:2.5, in the Low Countries it improved to 1:14 with the introduction of the three-field system of crop rotation around the 14th ...
In 1901, the Funk family and Funk Farms entered the seed business when Yale educated Eugene Duncan (E.D.) Funk, son of Lafayette Funk and grandson of Isaac, founded Funks Brothers Seed Company. Known for Funk's G-Hybrid seed corn, publicly traded Funk Brothers was the inventor, and world's leading producer, of hybrid corn. In 1941, E.D. Funk Sr ...
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A planter is a farm implement, usually towed behind a tractor, that sows (plants) seeds in rows throughout a field. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is connected to the tractor with a drawbar or a three-point hitch . Planters lay the seeds down in precise manner along rows.
Filling a feed-box of a seed drill, Canterbury Agricultural College farm, 1948. A seed drill is a device used in agriculture that sows seeds for crops by positioning them in the soil and burying them to a specific depth while being dragged by a tractor. This ensures that seeds will be distributed evenly.
Hybrid seeds planted by the farmer produce similar plants, but the seeds of the next generation from those hybrids will not consistently have the desired characteristics because of genetic assortment. It is therefore rarely desirable to save the seeds from hybrid plants to start the next crop.
Better seed storage and germination ability (and hence a smaller requirement to retain harvested crop for next year's seed) is another 20th-century technological innovation. In Medieval England, farmers saved one-quarter of their wheat harvest as seed for the next crop, leaving only three-quarters for food and feed consumption.