Categories - Agriculture
- Acorns
- Advances Are Made in Chinese Agricultural Technology
- Agriculture
- Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
- Bantu Peoples Spread Farming Across Southern Africa
- Beans
- Berry Publishes The Unsettling of America
- Borlaug Begins Work on High-Yield Wheat
- Bourlag Receives the Nobel Prize for Work on World Hunger
- Brown Orders Medfly Spraying in California
- Chávez Forms Farm Workers’ Union and Leads Grape Pickers’ Strike
- Chávez is Jailed for Organizing an Illegal Lettuce Boycott
- Congress Intensifies Food and Drug Regulation
- Congress Passes the Agricultural Marketing Act
- Congress Passes the Reclamation Act
- Congress Reduces Federal Farm Subsidies and Price Supports
- Corn
- Cotton
- Cyrus Hall McCormick
- Diquat Herbicide Is Developed for Weed Control
- Drought Begins in the Sahel Region of Africa
- The Dust Bowl Chokes the Central United States
- Dutch Elm Disease Arrives in the United States
- Early Villages Form in Oaxaca
- East Asian Grain Cultivation Begins
- The EEC Adopts a Common Agricultural Policy
- Eisenhower Begins the Food for Peace Program
- The First Genetically Engineered Food Reaches Supermarkets
- The Food and Drug Administration Is Established
- Food Security Act Contains Conservation Provisions
- Fritz Haber
- Fungicide-Tainted Grain Poisons Thousands of Iraqis
- George Washington Carver
- Horse Is Domesticated
- Hunting and Gathering
- Irrigation
- Jethro Tull
- Johnny Appleseed
- Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge Is Poisoned
- Khoikhoi and Kwadi Adopt Pastoral Lifestyle
- Kinnikinnick
- The Land Institute Is Founded to Develop Alternative Grains
- Leizu Discovers Silk Making
- Libyan Garamantes Flourish as Farmers and Traders
- The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Completed
- Luther Burbank
- Mao’s Great Leap Forward Brings Chaos to China
- Maple Syrup and Sugar
- Marcus Terentius Varro
- Marib Dam Is Built in Yemen