Agricultural engineering applies mechanical, civil, chemical and biological engineering principles to farm machinery, irrigation and drainage systems, soil and water conservation, and the processing and storage of food and fiber after harvest, uniting the science of crop and livestock production with the equipment and structures that make it possible at scale. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Core ConcernMechanizing and systematizing food, fiber and biological production, from field machinery, irrigation and drainage through post-harvest processing, storage and farm structures. 1 Core PrincipleApply mechanical, civil and biological engineering principles to the machinery, irrigation, drainage and storage systems that grow, harvest and process food and fiber at a scale a single farm could never reach by hand. 1 Agricultural Engineering
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How is agricultural engineering different from agronomy?
Agronomy is a plant and soil science that studies crop production and soil management. Agricultural engineering applies mechanical, civil, chemical and biological engineering principles to the machinery, structures, irrigation, drainage and processing systems that make farming possible, such as tractors, harvesters, grain silos, irrigation networks and food processing equipment. A crop scientist studies what a plant needs to grow well; an agricultural engineer designs and builds the machinery and infrastructure that lets a farm operate at scale.
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Plough, Inventions Field end of a technology member entity grouped under this field
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Source Cotton picker (Wikipedia)
Source Cultivator (Wikipedia)
Source Cyrus McCormick (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Drip irrigation (Wikipedia)
Source Jethro Tull (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Wikipedia: John Deere (inventor)
Source Joseph F. Glidden (Wikipedia article)
Source Multifunction platform (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia: Norman Borlaug
Source Percival Everitt (Grace's Guide)
Source Petty Plough (Wikipedia)
Source Plough (Wikipedia)
Source Waru Waru (Wikipedia)
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1. Agricultural Engineering (Wikipedia)
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The American Society of Agricultural Engineers was founded in 1907.
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Agricultural engineering, also known as agricultural and biosystems engineering, is the field of study and application of engineering science and design principles for agriculture purposes, combining the various disciplines of mechanical, civil, electrical, food science, environmental, software, and chemical engineering to improve the efficiency of farms and agribusiness enterprises as well as to ensure sustainability of natural and renewable resources.
In Group: Land, Water and Environment Engineering Fields, Lead paragraph
Agricultural engineering, also known as agricultural and biosystems engineering, is the field of study and application of engineering science
View the Source Jethro Tull (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationIncludes: Jethro TullView the Source Cyrus McCormick (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationIncludes: Cyrus McCormickView the Source Benjamin Holt (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationIncludes: Benjamin HoltView the Source Joseph F. Glidden (Wikipedia article)
Includes: Joseph F. Glidden, InventionQuote, Includes: Joseph F. Glidden, Invention
Glidden began work on ways to make a useful barbed wire to fence cattle in 1873.
Cultivator (Wikipedia)
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Agricultural machinery
Baler (Wikipedia)
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Agricultural machinery
Drip irrigation (Wikipedia)
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Irrigation
Waru Waru (Wikipedia)
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Irrigation
Plough (Wikipedia)
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Farming tools
Petty Plough (Wikipedia)
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The Petty Plough was a steerable plough developed by brothers Frank and Herbert Petty of Doncaster, Victoria, Australia in the early 1930s.
Cotton picker (Wikipedia)
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A cotton picker is either a machine that harvests cotton, or a person who picks ripe cotton fibre from the plants.
Wikipedia: John Deere (inventor)
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He founded Deere & Company, one of the largest and leading agricultural and construction-equipment manufacturers in the world.
Wikipedia: Norman Borlaug
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Norman Ernest Borlaug (; March 25, 1914, September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution.
Multifunction platform (Wikipedia)
Includes: Multifunction Platform, IntroductionQuote, Includes: Multifunction Platform, Introduction
Whereas the UNDP's projects have involved substantial injection of foreign expert advice, a low budget self-initiated approach was in recent times taken in Kiliba, DRC at Farm of Hope, a project of Fondation Chirezi.
Archimedes' Screw (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationIncludes: Archimedes' Screw, IntroductionQuote, Includes: Archimedes' Screw, Introduction
As a machine used for lifting water from a low-lying body of water into irrigation ditches, it lifts water by turning a screw-shaped surface inside a pipe.
Percival Everitt (Grace's Guide)
Includes: Percival Everitt, BiographyQuote, Includes: Percival Everitt, Biography
established a business as agricultural and general engineers
Open Questions (1 open question)
Who deserves primary credit for the mechanical reaper: Obed Hussey, who patented his design in 1833, or Cyrus McCormick, who patented a competing design in 1834 and claimed an even earlier 1831 invention?
Obed Hussey patented a mechanical reaper in Ohio in 1833. Robert McCormick's son Cyrus McCormick patented a competing reaper design in 1834, and Cyrus McCormick himself later claimed the machine was actually invented in 1831, which would predate Hussey's patent. The two designs competed in the marketplace for decades and were the subject of several lawsuits.
What would resolve this A verified, independently documented date for the McCormick reaper's true first working version would settle whether Hussey's filed 1833 patent or McCormick's disputed 1831 claim has real chronological priority; no such independent record has been produced.
History of TechnologyWikipedia contributors, Reaper (Wikipedia)
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