#Farming usa 2 case ih combine series#

Harvest crops by carrying out a series of laborious operations oneĪfter another. We can use the seeds at the top of each plant (knownĪs the grain) to make products like bread and cereal, but theĭry coatings of the seeds (the chaff) are inedible and have to be discarded,īefore modern-day machines were developed, agricultural workers had to The crops we grow in our fields, such as wheat, barley, and rye,Īre only partly edible. Photo by Scott Bauer courtesy of US Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service (USDA/ARS). All we eat are the little grains at the top of each stalk (shown in the small piles alongside). Photo: Wheat is one of the world's most important cereal crops.

Have combine harvesters always looked like this?.

It's a simple job that takes just a few minutes.

Photo: Top: The enormously wide header at the front of a combine makes it impossible to drive down a narrow country lane, so how do you move it from field to field? Bottom: Fortunately, the header can be removed and towed on a special trailer, sideways behind a tractor.

The biggest combines have headers about 12m (40 ft) wide! You can see how wide the header (front cutting mechanism) is compared to the main body of the machine. Photo: A typical combine harvester, or 'combine,' made by John Deere other makes include Case IH, Gleaner, New Holland and Claas. Of huge, automated machines such as combine harvesters that made eachĪgricultural worker vastly more productive. What caused thatĪmazing change in society? One important factor was the development Only 2 percent of people are now working this way. In 1800, something like 90 percent of the entire US population wasĮmployed working the land fast-forward 200 years and you'll find

Farming usa 2 case ih combine