TIME LINE

Cotton Gin invented 1793

• Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin
• His machine could generate up to fifty pounds of cleaned cotton daily

THE CAST IRON PLOW 1797

• the first English patent for a wooden moldboard sheathed with iron was issued to Joseph Foljambe.
• These cast iron plows were then imported to the U.S.

CYRUS MCCORMICK INVENTS THE GRAIN REAPER 1834

• A reaper is a farming tool that reaps (cuts and gathers) crops at harvest
• Example of hand reaping: plucking the ears of grains directly by hand,

Steel Moldboard Plow developed 1837

• The founder was John Deere
• The steal plow was a great invention

CORN PICKER INVENTED 1850

• Edmund Quincy invented the first corn picker
• It pulls the ear of corn from the stalks and husk

MORRILL ACT ESTABLISHED LAND GRANT COLLEGES 1862

• Michigan State University which is a model for the Morrill Act
• It allowed agriculture collages

MENDEL DISCOVERS HEREDITY INFORMATION AS DISCRETE UNITS IN 1863

• Mendel predicated the existence of units of heredity information that gets passed down to off spring
• They are called Punnett squares

MILKING MACHINE INVENTED 1878

• Ana Baldwin invented the milking machine
• Saves time by not having to milk each individual cow

BENJAMIN HOLT INVENTED THE TRACTOR 1904

• A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed for the purposes of hauling a trailer
• Most commonly, the term is used to describe a farm vehicle that provides the power to do agricultural tasks,

The Smith–Lever Act of 1914

• is a United States federal law that established a system of cooperative extension services,
• in order to inform people about current developments in agriculture,

FIRST HYBRID CORN 1933

• realized that hybrid lines could significantly outyield open pollinated lines
• Corn is considered the only important cereal crop that evolved in the Americans

US SUPREME COURT RULING: PATENTING GENETICALLY ALTERED LIFE FORMS 1980

• Most people refer to it as cloning
• You can clone your good animals to have better live stock

Chymosin introduced in food supply 1990 Chy-Max

• for cheese-making, is introduced to the marketplace and food supply
• Helps make production of block cheese.

Flav-R-Saver Tomato introduced (1992)

• a genetically modified tomato
• was the first commercially grown genetically engineered food to be granted a license for human consumption.

FDA RULING GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOODS “NOT INHERENTLY DANGEROUS” 1992

• FDA’s 1992 policy genetically modified foods are regulated as ordinary foods, and not food additives
• one of the benefits of the voluntary consultation process was that it would permit the identification of unresolved safety

Farmers begin using satellite technology to track and plan farming practices 1994

• GPS-based applications in precision farming are being used for farm planning Ect
• It helps them track and plan farming practices

Dolly the sheep was cloned 1997

• They were just learning how to clone
• She gave birth to four lambs
• She was named after Dolly Parton

GOLDEN RICE DEVELOPED 2000

• Golden Rice is modified to provide beta-carotene in the rice grain
• it could potentially address widespread Vitamin A deficiency in poor countries where rice is a staple

PLANT GENOME FOR “ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA” SEQUENCED 2000

• sequencing and analysis of the genome of Arabidopsis thaliana, the 'model' plant for research.
• It is a major milestone in biology

USDA publishes standards and official seal for organic products in 2000

• is the federal regulatory framework governing organic food.
• The NOP covers fresh and processed agricultural food products, including crops and livestock.