Though the basics of farming haven't changed from the first ancient agrarian practices, the process of accomplishing the tasks of planting, sowing, nurturing, and reaping have continuously evolved. Without this evolution, we would not have the civilization or the world population which now define the planet. The Industrial Revolution directly led to farming processes and automation that led to the growth of large urban areas, supporting vast numbers of people that would have been impossible without the complicated, engine driven machines that now do most of the work.
Farm equipment is essentially the machinery that makes our lifestyles possible. We take for granted the fact that food is available to most of us by simply going to the grocery store to find all of the food that we want or need. If asked about the machinery that is vital to our lives most would answer our cars, our home appliances and the like without giving a thought to the fact that none of that would matter much if we didn't have a source of food. We are as dependent on that farm equipment as much as the farmer is because without it, most of us wouldn't be here.
Imagine our world if the plough was still pulled by a horse and sowing seeds in the ground was still done by hand. At the time of harvest, grain was threshed by beating it with sticks, hand collected and separated from the stalks, with the stalks finally gathered by hand and bundled into bales for use by livestock. Without modern farm equipment, our world would look very different indeed.
The development of the internal combustion engine provided the power and versatility to create the multi-use tractor that can pull devices to till the ground, plow it, plant seeds, and much more. Other farm equipment devices remove weeds and spreads fertilizers. The combine harvester moves through the fields to simultaneously cut, thresh, and separate grain, covering huge areas quickly with a single human operator. Balers tightly collect and pack hay for use during the winter months.
Today's technology is advancing modern farming equipment even further with computer monitoring systems and GPS locators that will perhaps allow these machines to drive themselves in the near future. Though the basics of planting, sowing, and reaping will never change, what once required the labor of thousands of hands is now accomplished by the farm machinery that makes the world as we know it today possible.
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