Ag Innovations Timeline

  • Combine

    Combine

    A machine that combined reaping threshing and winnowing in one operation-radically reducing manual labor and increasing efficiency in grain harvesting.
  • Grain elevator

    Grain elevator

    Farmer-traders previously had to unload grain by hand, lugging sacks laboriously from boats or wagons. Dart and Dunbar revolutionized the process with a steam-powered bucket elevator that mechanically scooped loose grain from ship hulls and lifted it into storage towers. This dramatically accelerated unloading and storage shifting grain handling from a slow labor-intensive task to a rapid mechanized system.
  • Barbed wire

    Barbed wire

    Revolutionized fencing by providing sheep, effective livestock containment, enabling better lan management and property delineation
  • Tractor

    Tractor

    Tractors made a HUGE change in the farming industry it replaced a animal labor for plowing, planting, and hauling, greatly increasing farming effficienct and scale
  • Assembly line

    Assembly line

    Assembly lines allowed mass production of farming equipment like tractors and combines reducing costs and making machinery more accessible