The Steel Plow
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.
The settlement of the plains would have been different without inventions. With the help of the spring-tooth harrow, grain drill, barbed wire, and corn binder it made it easier to support farmers. Without these, preparing soil, planting seeds, and protecting the land would have been very hard and taken more time.
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The Homestead Act of 1862is most responsible for the rapid settlement of the Great Plains.
We invented and patented the first pneumatic broadacre air seeder in the world and pioneered its early development. Albert Fuss set about making a seeder mechanism with central distribution and mounted it on a Graham Holme Chisel Plough.In 1956 the family sowed wheat through the air seeder near Dalby in Queensland on 12" rows on a 20' wide machine.The Gyral "Number 1" Seeder. It still runs todayand is at the Gyral Factory in Toowoomba!For over 45 years Gyral have manufactured air seeders. Albert Fuss patented his invention in 1956 and we have still have the number one air seeder here at the factory, and it still runs!North American cropping farmers, for example, probably have no idea that equipment purchased from the Great Plains Manufacturing Co of Kansas was patented from the drawing boards located at Gyral's Queensland Head Office or that Australian farmers from Western Australia to Queensland who have purchased Gason, Horwood Bagshaw, Shearer, Napier Grasslands or Simplicity are using equipment that is or has used Gyral's Air Seeding concepts.Evolution of the Air SeederGyral Implements Pty Ltd, 285 McDougall Street, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
The nickname for plains farmers is okies.
John Deere
John Deere
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plains farmers
plains farmers
A Sodbuster was a steel plough invented to be used to farm the Great Plains, which had a hard crust making it difficult to farm>answer. Um I thought sod busters were farmers who built their house of sod.>this part is a comment Nope, the original name sod buster was for the plough. The name did in fact become slang for the farmers of the Great Plains. The sod-buster was acually invented by JOHN DEERe which is now a massive farming company
Farmers in interior plains may need to use irrigation to supplement natural rainfall and ensure consistent water supply for their crops. The interior plains typically have lower rainfall levels, making irrigation necessary to support agriculture and maintain crop growth throughout the growing season. Irrigation can help farmers mitigate the risk of drought and optimize crop production in these regions.
Plains farmers
its more dependent on rail roads
its more dependent on rail roads
they were homesteaders. not farmers.