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Harvest tools of antiquity; To the unknown gaul; The society of arts; Who invented the reaper; Tribulum, roller and drum; Pitch forks and devil's wind; Getting it all together: "combined thrashers"; Automatons, headers & barges; Harvesters and binders; Hiram moore and the Michigan combine; California's leviathans; The golden era of steam and big threshers; Meanwhile, down under; Massey-harris/massey-ferguson; International harvester company; Deere and company; Rumely, baldwin and allis-chalmers corporation; The other slice; Hillsides and the side hill; Gwaiakowe: king corn; Cinderella soybean; European and Russian harvest; Rotary separators and axial combines; The grain harvesters of the future; References and selected bibliography; Metric conversion information.
An epic story of the American wheat harvest, the politics of food, and the culture of the Great Plains For over one hundred years, the Mockett family has owned a seven-thousand-acre wheat farm in the panhandle of Nebraska, where Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s father was raised. When Mockett, who grew up in bohemian Carmel, California, with a Japanese mother, inherited this land, she knew little about farming. Her father had all but forsworn it. In American Harvest, Mockett accompanies a group of evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through the heartland at the invitation of Eric Wolgemuth, the conservative farmer who has cut her family’s fields for decades. As Mockett follows Wolgemuth’s cr...
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Precision Agriculture (PA) is an approach to managing the variability in production agriculture in a more economic and environmentally efficient manner. It has been pioneered as a management tool in the grains industry, and while its development and uptake continues to grow amongst grain farmers worldwide, a broad range of other cropping industries have embraced the concept. This book explains general PA theory, identifies and describes essential tools and techniques, and includes practical examples from the grains industry. Readers will gain an understanding of the magnitude, spatial scale and seasonality of measurable variability in soil attributes, plant growth and environmental condition...
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The complete illustrated story of the combine harvester. Accompanied by a wide variety of new colour photographs, this book will appeal to farm machinery enthusiasts and those interested in the development of modern industrial machinery.