Agriculture
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OLD TRACTORS
- The first driving tractors were steam powered and could harvest over one thousand bushels a day without any problems throughout the day.
- And they only used 26 gallons of gas not diesel.
Photo by Timothy Eberly
NEW TRACTORS
- Tractors are now powered mainly by diesel but tractors are gas powered also.
- Tractors can hold anywhere from 100 to 400 gallons of diesel also their are gas tractors but diesel is most common today.
FARMING DISCS
- Were made for tilling the soil and getting rid of unwanted crops and weeds.
PLANTERS
- Planters where made to plant crops quicker so it would not take as long.
FERTILIZERS
- Fertilizers help keep the plants healthy and it keeps the ground fertile so they can keep growing good crops.
Photo by eutrophication&hypoxia
SPRAYERS
- Sprayers are used for getting rid of parasites and pesticides and are used to keep them healthy.
OLD COMBINES
- The early combines only had 2 or 4 rows that you could cut at a time and this took a long time especially since they could only go 2 to 3 miles an hour at the time.
NEW COMBINES
- The combines we use today can be able to cut up to twenty rows or more even though these are more time efficient they also cost a lot more money today then they did back then.
CROP DUSTERS
- Crop dusters are simply used for protecting the crops from rain and other environmental weather.
Photo by cwwycoff1
GPS
- Farmers use a gps so they do not go into other farmers fields and to stay on coarse of their field.
Photo by Antony Griffiths
