1. Agriculture
Then and Now

2. Work Force
More than 25% of people work in agriculture or some related field
Many changes have occurred throughout the years

3. Then vs. Now People living on Farms
Amount of time to produce an acre of wheat
1800’s = 55 hours
Now = 1 hour

4. Steam Engines

5. History of the Engine
John Froelich
First gasoline tractor in 1892

6. History of the Engine Rudolph Diesel
Produced the first diesel engine in 1898

7. FARMALL TRACTOR

8. MODERN JOHN DEERE TRACTOR

9. 4 Wheel Drive Tractor

10. Allowed people to move west!
JOHN DEERE PLOW
Allowed people to move west!

11. HORSE DRAWN PLOW

12. Modern Plow

13. First
Planters

14. Horse Drawn Planter

15. Modern Planter

16. Early
Harvest

17. ELY WHITNEY'S
COTTON GIN

18. EARLY COMBINE
Edmund Quincy invented first mechanical picker

19. EARLY CORN PICKER

20. JOHN DEERE COMBINE

21. COMBINES TODAY
JOHN DEERE
CASE IH

22. Corn Crib

23. GRAIN ELEVATOR TODAY

24. Check Row (Early ‘GPS’)

25. GPS
Precision
Agriculture

26. George Washington Carver
First person to Diversity Agriculture
Grew peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans

27. OLD MOWER

28. NEW MOWER