What can I talk about in my agriculture machinery speech?
You could talk about how machinery revolutionized our world. Being able to harvest and plant more food. Faster, Cheaper, smarter. Talk about John Deere - John Deere (February 7, 1804 – May 17, 1886) was an American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere Company— the largest agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers in the world. Born in Rutland, Vermont, Deere moved to Illinois and invented the first commercially successful steel plow in 1837. The New Holland Company - The New Holland brand has a history whose origins date back to Pennsylvania in 1895 when the New Holland Machine Company was originally founded. The company has a rich history in earthmoving, dating back to 1921 through companies that, over the years have helped to shape the brand. Born out of the merger between Fiat Geotech and Ford in 1991, New Holland rapidly gained a vast resource of experience in engineering. Do some research on those 2 companies, and you will turn up a lot of different things you could talk about. People don't realize how important farm machinery is to our economy.
I think you should talk about the plow. Consider how it was first a stick that the farmer used to break up the soil. Then it was pulled by livestock. John Deere did revolutionize the plow to break the sod found in this country by early settlers, and turned the soil completely over ao the grass side was buried. He also invented the replaceable tip to the plow, you did not have to replace the whole thing. Now in a move to control erosion, the is no-till farming. This breaks the soil up very little, kind of like the stick but better and faster. Good luck on the research. If you are near the Moline Illinois area, a filed trip to John Deere might be helpful, otherwise the Deere company or any dealer may have information for you to use.
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Well...it wouldn't be popular, but it would be eye opening. You could talk about how the tractor companies took draft horses as down payment when they first started up decades ago. The draft horses were then sent off immediately for slaughter. In just a few short years, thanks the the coordinated work by the tractor companies the numbers of available draft horses plunged. That meant that farmers who were unhappy with their tractors, and wanted to go back to using draft horses (or draft mules) were unable to find any for love nor money. That was the beginning of the enslavement to debt of the U.S. farmer. Instead of running a horse that could reproduce itself, farmers now had to go into debt to buy tractors. It meant they worked longer hours (headlights on tractors) to pay for them. No longer did farmers work sun-up till sun-down. Agriculture quickly became a 24 hour a day job. Since the tractor didn't need time to rest, like a horse, it meant longer hours, and purchasing more land (more debt) for the farmer to pay for all the new tractors, and fertilizers that were being pushed on the farmers by agra business companies. Like I said, not a popular speech, but very factual, and something few people realize (even farmers). ~Garnet Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years
