The term precision agriculture emerged when yield monitoring was first invented and brought to market. GPS receivers were added to map the sources of the yields, which began to make it possible to ...

Have you ever wondered where our agricultural crops come from ... At this stage of history, crops were being transported around the world and grown under a diversity of conditions.

In California’s San Joaquin Valley, where many farmers fleeing the plains have gone seeking migrant farm work, the largest agricultural strike in America’s history begins. More than 18,000 ...

One-room schoolhouses are part of American agriculture history, the Eureka Schoolhouse in Springfield, Vermont, one of the earliest recorded one-room schools built in 1785. As settlers moved west, the ...

Modern fertilizer, a blend of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potash came into existence in the late 1880s. That’s today’s American Agriculture History Minute. I’m Mark Oppold. Thanks for reading. I’ll see ...