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Bosso, Christopher J. Framing the Farm Bill: Interests, Ideology, and Agricultural Act of 2014 (University Press of Kansas, 2017). Brunner, Edmund de Schweinitz. Rural social trends (1933) online edition; Conkin, Paul K. A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929 (2009) excerpt and text search; Dean ...
The development of agriculture about 12,000 years ago changed the way humans lived. They switched from nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyles to permanent settlements and farming. [1] Wild grains were collected and eaten from at least 104,000 years ago. [2] However, domestication did not occur until much later.
100 BC – Rotary winnowing fan invented in China; 100 BC – The multi-tube seed drill is invented in China; AD 200 – The fishing reel invented in China; 600 – The distillation of alcohol in China; 607 – The Chinese begin constructing a massive canal system to connect the Yellow and Yangtze rivers
Sugarcane and some root vegetables were domesticated in New Guinea around 9,000 years ago. Sorghum was domesticated in the Sahel region of Africa by 7,000 years ago. Cotton was domesticated in Peru by 5,600 years ago, [26] and was independently domesticated in Eurasia. In Mesoamerica, wild teosinte was bred into maize (corn) from 10,000 to ...
A study of crop failures in Winchester, England from 1232 to 1349 found that harvest failure occurred an average of every 12 years for wheat and every 8 years for barley and oats. Localized famine may have occurred in years in which one or more crops failed. Weather was again identified as the chief cause.
Aug. 27—100 Years Ago Aug. 27, 1923 Fifteen thousand persons, it is estimated, members of Odd Fellows lodges and Rebekah Assemblies, from practically every lodge in the State, attended the ...
Agriculture is the most dangerous industry for young workers, accounting for 42% of all work-related fatalities of young workers in the U.S. between 1992 and 2000. In 2011, 108 youth, less than 20 years of age, died from farm-related injuries. [46] Unlike other industries, half the young victims in agriculture were under age 15. [47]
Counting down to Christmas was done at least 100 years ago. This reminder appeared in the Daily Eagle on Dec. 4, 1924. The Pet and Novelty Shoppe announced they were opening at the end of the year ...