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British Agricultural Revolution
British Agricultural Revolution
England
Low Countries
Science
Entrepreneurship
Technology
The Farmer as
Scientist
(Middle Ages)
OUT
with the old.
Wheat
Oats
Fallow
(Middle Ages)
OUT
with the old.
Fallow
Wheat
Oats
(Middle Ages)
OUT
with the old.
Oats
Fallow
Wheat
(Seventeenth Century)
Wheat Oats
IN
Clover
with the new!
Turnips
(Seventeenth Century)
IN
T
urnips
Clover
Oats
TClover
urnips
Wheat
TOats
urnips
Wheat
Clover
Wheat
Oats
(Seventeenth Century)
IN
T
urnips
Oats
TClover
urnips
Wheat
Oats
Clover
Wheat
(Seventeenth Century)
IN
Oats
Turnips
Wheat
Clover
The application of
to agriculture
I have a genetic
defect thats been
perpetuated by
selective breeding.
THANKS, SCIENCE!
The Farmer as
Entrepreneur
The Old
Way
Enclosure
Movement
The New Way
Enclosure Movement
THE DOWNSIDE:
Hurt poor farmers
who lost grazing
rights for their cattle
on the common land
THE UPSIDE:
Agricultural
production, as a
whole, became more
market-oriented and
efficient.
The Farmer as
Inventor
Its been
awhile...
The Sower
Jethro Tull
(1674-1740)
Agricultural
Inventions
In the United States
Due to advances in
Science,
Entrepreneurship, &
Technology,
Europe was all SET to feed a larger
population to provide the manpower
for the Industrial Revolution.