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Mid-1860's Agriculture: Past, Present, And Future

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Since the mid- 1860’s Agriculture has changed majorly. Now-a-day’s Alabama landscape consists of woodlands, pine plantations, scattered pastureland, and small homesteads. Many crops were planted and still are. Some examples would be potatoes, tomatoes, corn, wheat, barley, and squash. Now a day, people had many different ways/types of farming such as: Organic Farming is the type of agriculture that relies on crop rotation, green manure, compost, biological pest control, and mechanical cultivation to maintain soil productivity and control pests, and limiting the use of synthetic fertilizers. Mult-crop Farming is a practice followed by farmers by cultivating more than one crop. There are many advantages of this type of farming. It helps farmers …show more content…

It is said that future farming will be controlled by robots and drones. Farming Equipment will no longer be run by a human being only by robots and technology set by someone to do the work for them. Hopefully they’ll soon have access to small drones that can fly over the fields and monitor plant health from above. Jeff Mulligan states that, “The tractors, which drive themselves, don’t stray from their paths by more than an inch. The planter, towed behind a tractor, knows the nutritional content of every square foot of every field. It plants more seeds in richer soil and fewer in the thinner stuff.” In the future: People will use smartphones and portable computers to control the robots that are operating the tractors and farm equipment. Another example of Future Farming Technology is Robot milking machines and Robot feeding machines, cow heat detection devices, electronic ear tags, farm management software, and GPS steering systems for the tractors and other equipment. There are many different jobs having to do with farming in the future, such as: Energy farmer, Geo-engineer, Insect farmer, Web 3.0 Farm Host, Pharmer (A scientist who creates pharmaceutical products by incorporating modified DNA into the cells of a plant or animal) and Animal

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Between 1865 and 1900 American agriculture was changed through things like, government policy, technology, and economic conditions. Through 1865 and 1900, the market of agriculture experienced political adjustments in management of the land by the government whom increased prices and controlled land sales. Government also regulated economic changes with the debut of up and coming equipment and technology that greatly influenced the growth of the farming business. Many farmers reaction to the decline in agriculture due to the political and economic alterations was to become more involved in government and politics in order to favor laws that would benefit the agriculture society.

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