Subcategories - Farms, Farming, Rural Life

  1. Advances Are Made in Chinese Agricultural Technology
  2. Agriculture
  3. Bantu Peoples Spread Farming Across Southern Africa
  4. Birth of the People’s Party
  5. Borlaug Begins Work on High-Yield Wheat
  6. Bracero Program
  7. Brown Orders Medfly Spraying in California
  8. Chávez Forms Farm Workers’ Union and Leads Grape Pickers’ Strike
  9. Chávez is Jailed for Organizing an Illegal Lettuce Boycott
  10. Congress Expands Pesticide Regulations
  11. Congress Passes the Agricultural Marketing Act
  12. Congress Passes the Taylor Grazing Act
  13. Congress Reduces Federal Farm Subsidies and Price Supports
  14. Cyrus Hall McCormick
  15. Daniel Shays
  16. Diquat Herbicide Is Developed for Weed Control
  17. Dolores Huerta
  18. Dong Son Culture Appears in Vietnam
  19. The Dust Bowl
  20. The Dust Bowl Chokes the Central United States
  21. Early Villages Form in Oaxaca
  22. East Asian Grain Cultivation Begins
  23. The EEC Adopts a Common Agricultural Policy
  24. Eisenhower Begins the Food for Peace Program
  25. Eli Whitney
  26. Environmental Protection Agency Bans Pesticide Chlorpyrifos
  27. Fritz Haber
  28. George Washington Carver
  29. Henry A. Wallace
  30. Hohokam Culture Arises in American Southwest
  31. Insecticide Use Intensifies When Arsenic Proves Effective Against the Boll Weevil
  32. International Harvester Company Is Founded
  33. Irish Famine and the Great Emigration
  34. Ivanov Develops Artificial Insemination
  35. Jethro Tull
  36. Johnny Appleseed
  37. Libyan Garamantes Flourish as Farmers and Traders
  38. Mao’s Great Leap Forward Brings Chaos to China
  39. Marib Dam Is Built in Yemen
  40. McCormick Invents the Reaper
  41. National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry Forms
  42. New Rice and Wheat Strains Launch the Green Revolution
  43. A New Rice Strain Begins the Green Revolution
  44. Niger-Congo Peoples Spread Agriculture in Africa
  45. Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov
  46. Nilo-Saharan Farmers Spread Cultivation and Herding
  47. Nilo-Saharan Peoples Produce Food and Pottery
  48. Omotics Advance Farming Practices in Horn of Africa
  49. Organic Farming Becomes Commercially Feasible
  50. Owens Valley Farmers Blow Up the Los Angeles Aqueduct