Agriculture and the Environment
Daily Activities at Agriculture: Innovations in Farming
This exhibit features tools and machinery that farmers used to grow crops, raise livestock, process eggs and dairy products, and generate power for farm use. Competing companies vied for the lucrative market. Farmers could select tractors best suited for row crops, orchards or market gardens. All machines, from husking pegs to microscopes, served a function -- traction engines for threshing crews, self-propelled combines for wheat farmers, and tomato harvesters for vegetable growers. The dynamic nature of farming helps make what is old, new again, as many find new uses for antique horse- or ox-drawn equipment, while others turn to no-till technology. Regardless, farmer choices can transform agriculture and the environment.
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Agriculture and the Environment
Come see first-hand some of the amazing agricultural inventions developed for farmers to use to produce and market foodstuffs. Explore engines, tractors and trucks, combines, and more in the Agriculture exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation.
Making Farming a Little Easier
Steam traction engines such as this one mechanized 19th-century farming.
