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Grady, Lee. "McCormick's Reaper at 100," Wisconsin Magazine of History (2001) 84#3 pp.10-20. Looks at the marketing of agricultural equipment 1831 to 1931. Hirsch, Arthur. “Efforts of the Grange in the Middle West to Control the Price of Farm Machinery, 1870–1880.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 15 (1929): 473–96. Hounshell, David A.
Agricultural machinery relates to the mechanical structures and devices used in farming or other agriculture. There are many types of such equipment , from hand tools and power tools to tractors and the farm implements that they tow or operate.
Agricultural equipment is any kind of machinery used on a farm to help with farming. The best-known example of this kind is the tractor . From left to right: John Deere 7800 tractor with Houle slurry trailer, Case IH combine harvester, New Holland FX 25 forage harvester with corn head.
The history of agriculture in the United States covers the period from the first English settlers to the present day. In Colonial America, agriculture was the primary livelihood for 90% of the population, and most towns were shipping points for the export of agricultural products.
The Case Corporation was a manufacturer of agricultural machinery and construction equipment. Founded, in 1842, by Jerome Increase Case as the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company , it operated under that name for most of a century.
Taylor Manufacturing Co., operational in Chambersburg in the late 1800s, has patents on the portable steam engine and an ice machine/ice cream maker. Chambersburg's Taylor Manufacturing Co. was ...
The Ford N-series tractor helped revolutionize modern mechanized agriculture with its Ferguson three point hitch. A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or construction.
Pages in category "Agricultural machinery manufacturers of the United States" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .