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Food Industry In The 1800s

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land. At this point we are starting to realize that this is going to change the way farmers are growing their crops. It is now evident how far technology has changed the food industry, “ A major change between the early 1800s and the present day deals with how many hours it took to harvest 100 bushels of wheat. In the 1800s, it took 300 hours to produce a 100 bushels of wheat and now it takes less than four hours” (Arago, Web) that statistic alone really demonstrates the amount of time we have been able to save ourselves and how that alone can has changed the markets. In the early 1900s there were still a good percentage of Americans working on farms. At this point families had an average of one hundred and fifty acres of land, which tripled, from the thirty five to fifty acres mentioned earlier in the paper. The innovation of farming tools has changed substantially in the early 1900s to help increase productivity and efficiency at the same time cutting back the hours it takes to do certain labor tasks. We are going to discuss four important tools that were most commonly used the categories were; hand powered, animal powered, steam powered, gasoline powered. The hand powered consisted of, “ …using hammers, saws, hoes, rakes, shovels, sickles, and other …show more content…

When it comes to tools the better the quality the more work you will be able to accomplish in a shorter period of time and this is why it is important to understand that the steel industry was part of the evolution of farming and it all collides. When an industry for example the steel industry is able to innovate and introduce new products to consumer and their equipment is able to give purchasers higher marginal cost it is beneficial for everyone, including the customers who are purchasing the food. Why? It is because the price

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