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Compared to farmers in the Northeast farmers of the Great Plains were what?
its more dependent on rail roads
What type of agriculture did farmers use on the great plains?
Dry Farming
Why attracted farmers to the Great Plains?
The homestead act and free land.
Which inventions helped settlers on the Great Plains?
Dry-farming, plowing and planting in a way that conserved moisture. the use of the windmill to pump water from underground and the use of barbed wire to keep out stray cattle and sheep.
Farmers of late nineteenth century of the Great plains usually lived on?
Isolated farmhouses.
How did new technology helpe farmers in the Great Plains?
it saved them time and effort
What forms of technology did farmers use to adapt to the dry conditions of the Great Plains?
irrigation and windmils
What technology helped cattle ranching on the great plains experience growth?
Railroads...
Why were windmills important in the great plains?
they helped farmers retrieve water from deep water aquifers
Which invention helped farmers to grow and plant crops on the great plains after the civil war?
steel plow
Which factors hlped the farmers on the great plains overcome opposition from cattle ranchers?
There are many factors that helped the farmers on the great plains to overcome opposition from cattle ranchers. For instance they bought new and improved machinery which improved efficiency in their farming.
What are the following ways that technology helped pioneers turned the great plains into productive farmland?
Hi dont now!!
What three advances in technology helped the people who were living on the Great Plains?
windmills,irrigation ditches and,barbed wire.
What type of technology did farmers on the Great Plains use and how did they use them?
The "technology" was in the form of the steel plowshare. This allowed them to plow and then plant crops in grasslands that had heavy matting of grass roots.
Why was there competition between ranchers and farmers to settle the Great Plains?
There was competition between ranchers and farmers to settle in the Great Plains because they wanted to have more land.
What do you call a great plains farmer?
what are great plain farmers called
Farmers on the Great Plains were aided by what?
by the windmills
