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Inventor: John Deere
Year of Creation: 1865

An improved design of the original steal plow. This plow features a staggered row of multiple(4,5,6) plows, used to plow multiple rows for crops at once.

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Inventor: The Ruffner brothers(In US)
Year of creation: 1808

The first standard cable-tool drilling rig was created in West Virginia by the Ruffner brothers. These brothers inherited a piece of “salt” land in the Great Kanawha River. Demand for salt increased and the brothers created a successful salt mining business. The Ruffner brothers developed the water drill by using the salt drills as a reference.

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Inventor: Joseph Glidden
Year of creation: 1874

Livestock farming was a more prominent part of agriculture in the 1800s, but with without reliable ways to keep cattle in one place it was common practice for cattle to roam freely onto other peoples land. Glidden was tired of cattle walking onto his front yard so he developed a fence with sharpened wire coils to deter cattle from walking into his yard. Thus the framework for modern barbed wire was laid.

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Inventor:Joe Froelich
Date of creation: 1892

The gas tractor was made as a direct upgrade from the steam engine tractors. Not only were they much more efficient, the design of the enclosed combustion engine was much safer than the boiler needed to power steam engines. The sparks of the boiler proved to be hazard for farmers and the crops.

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(ThoughtCo. used for general chronological placement of inventions. Dates and other information verified through other sites in citation.)

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-froelich-inventor-of-the-gas-powered-tractor-is-born

https://history.iowa.gov/history/education/educator-resources/primary-source-sets/iowas-corn-and-agriculture-industry/new#:~:text=New%20Deal%20Gang%20Plow%20with,State%20Historical%20Society%20of%20Iowa

http://www.energyglobalnews.com/1806-rufner-brothers-drill-and-complete-first-well-in-america/
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Only a couple of centuries ago, farming was very different and used very little technology. See how the agricultural revolution and inventions changed farming so that far less manual labor is needed to feed the world today than in previous eras.

16th-18th Century: Oxen and Horses

This period featured the use and emergence of such farm equipment as oxen and horses for power, crude wooden plows, hay and grain cutting with a sickle, and threshing with a flail. All sowing was done by hand and cultivating by hoe.

1776-1799: The Cradle and Scythe

The farm technology revolution began in this period. Notable agricultural inventions and new farm technology included:

1790s: The introduction of the cradle and scythe;

1793: Invention of the cotton gin;

1794: Testing of Thomas Jefferson's moldboard of least resistance;

1797: Patenting of the cast-iron plow by Charles Newbold.

Early 1800s: The Iron Plow

The agricultural revolution picked up steam during these years, with notable agricultural developments including:

1819: Jethro Wood's patenting of the iron plow with interchangeable parts;

1819-25: The establishment of the U.S. food canning industry.

1860s-mid-1870s: Steam Tractors

The period from1862 to 1875 signaled a change from hand power to horses, characterizing the first American agricultural revolution. Farm inventions included:

1865-75: Gang plows and sulky plows came into use.

1868: Steam tractors were tried out.

1869: The spring-tooth harrow or seedbed preparation appeared.

1870s: The Age of Barbed Wire

Silos came into use throughout the 1870s, and other developments included:

1870s: The deep-well drilling was first widely used.

1874: Glidden barbed wire was patented.

1874: The availability of barbed wire allowed fencing of rangeland, ending the era of unrestricted, open-range grazing.

1880s-1890s: Mechanization

In 1890, 35-40 labor-hours were required to produce 100 bushels (2 1/2 acres) of corn with a 2-bottom gang plow, disk and peg-tooth harrow, and 2-row planter.​ Also in 1890, 40-50 labor-hours were required to produce 100 bushels (5 acres) of wheat with a gang plow, seeder, harrow, binder, thresher, wagons, and horses. Other developments included:

1880: William Deering put 3,000 twine binders on the market.

1884-90: The horse-drawn combine was used in Pacific Coast wheat areas.

1890-95: Cream separators came into wide use

1890-99: The average annual consumption of commercial fertilizer was 1,845,900 tons.

1890s: Agriculture became increasingly mechanized and commercialized

1890: Most basic potentialities of agricultural machinery that were dependent on horsepower had been discovered.

1900-1910: Diversification of Crops

Throughout the decade, George Washington Carver, director of agricultural research at Tuskegee Institute, pioneered in finding new uses for peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans, thus helping to diversify Southern agriculture. Additionally, the average annual consumption of commercial fertilizer was 3,738,300 tons.

1910s: Gas Tractors

Big open-geared gas tractors came into use in areas of extensive farming during the first half of the decade. Additionally:

1970s: Increased Production

By 1970,one farmer could supply nearly 76 people in the United States and abroad with food. And throughout the decade, no-tillage agriculture was popularized. Additionally:

1980s-90s: Sustainable Agriculture

By the 1980s, many farmers began using no-till or low-till methods to curb erosion. Additionally, by the late 1980s, just one-and-one-half to two labor-hours were required to produce 100 pounds (1/5 acre) of lint cotton with ​a tractor, 4-row stalk cutter, 20-foot disk, 6-row bedder and planter, a 6-row cultivator with herbicide applicator, and 4-row harvester. Other developments from this period included:

1987: Only three labor-hours were required to produce 100 bushels (3 acres) of wheat with a tractor, 35-foot sweep disk, 30-foot drill, 25-foot self-propelled combine, and trucks

1987: About three labor-hours were required to produce 100 bushels (1 1/8 acres) of corn with a tractor, 5-bottom plow, 25-foot tandem disk, planter, 25-foot herbicide applicator, 15-foot self-propelled combine, and trucks

1989: After several slow years, the sale of farm equipment rebounded

1989: More farmers began to use low-input sustainable agriculture techniques to decrease chemical applications

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How Did Farming Technology Change in the Past Two Centuries?

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A timeline shows how farming tools and agricultural inventions drove modernization from manual labor to mechanization in the 1800s and 1900s.

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Introduced to agriculture in the 1920s the enclosed gear box fixed a huge problem that most popular tractors had. That being erosion of gears due to the environmental conditions. The gear box allowed for the gears to be protected and lubricated. This was pivotal in ensuring that farmers could start to rely on their gas powered machinery.

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Inventor: Frederick McKinley Jones
Date of Creation: 1925

The refrigerated truck was an extremely important part in expanding the agriculture industry. These trucks would allow for perishable foods to be shipped to all over the country.

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Early 2000s

Smartphones make a lot of things easier including Farming. Smartphones gave farmers an easy way to make purchases, connect with other farmers, share knowledge and portable way of having any data they may need. Now farmers were able to have a prediction of the weather, and be able to know how much rain each field received without having to travel to it.