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Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “American Agriculture History Minute”

American Agriculture History

American Agriculture History Minute: Irrigation Key to Great American Desert Farming

Dan May 9, 2025Agri-Business, American Agriculture History Minute, Irrigation, This Land of Ours

I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. Agriculture in what is now Colorado began taking shape in the early 1850s. Then Rocky Mountain News founder William N. Byers …

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American Agriculture

American Agriculture History Minute: Early Agricultural Experiments Conducted

Dan May 8, 2025American Agriculture History Minute, Research, This Land of Ours

I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. In the early 1820s, after the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the U.S. government decided to conduct agricultural experiments in what is …

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first major agricultural settlement

American Agriculture History Minute: First Major Agricultural Settlement

Dan May 7, 2025American Agriculture History Minute, This Land of Ours

I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. Greeley became Colorado’s first major agricultural settlement and they soon discovered there that irrigation was going to be the key to …

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kansas

American Agriculture History Minute: Kansas Pioneer Farmers

Dan May 6, 2025American Agriculture History Minute, This Land of Ours

I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. At the close of the Civil War, the government offered homesteads in Kansas to Union Army veterans and more than 100,000 …

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mail order tractor parts business

American Agriculture History Minute: First Mail Order Tractor Parts Business Begins

Dan May 5, 2025American Agriculture History Minute, This Land of Ours

I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. In 1938, Charles E. Schmidt began a mail order tractor parts business. The company got its start in Minot, North Dakota …

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Early agriculture

American Agriculture History Minute: Early Agriculture in Kansas Often Unsuccessful

Dan May 2, 2025American Agriculture History Minute, This Land of Ours

I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. Early agriculture in the state of Kansas was not always successful. Settlers began increasing in numbers when Kansas was opened to …

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early agriculture

American Agriculture History Minute: Early Agriculture Difficult in Kansas

Dan May 1, 2025American Agriculture History Minute, This Land of Ours

I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. Early agriculture in what is now the state of Kansas was not easy. The government sent a young frontiersman to help. …

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allis

American Agriculture History Minute: Allis Chalmers Company Beginning

Dan April 30, 2025American Agriculture History Minute, This Land of Ours

I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. Edward P. Allis was an entrepreneur who in 1860 bought a bankrupt firm at a sheriff’s auction, the Reliance Works of …

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American Agriculture

American Agriculture History Minute: Exports Boom Early Agriculture

Dan April 29, 2025Agri-Business, American Agriculture History Minute, Exports/Imports, This Land of Ours, Trade

I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. In New York State, the fur pelt export trade to Europe flourished in the early 1700s and added additional wealth to …

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american agriculture

American Agriculture History Minute: Wasteful Early Times of Agriculture

Dan April 28, 2025American Agriculture History Minute, This Land of Ours

I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. Historian Lewis Hacker shows how wasteful, actually, early settlers were. From the 1770s to the 1830s, pioneers moved into new lands …

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Great Plains

American Agriculture History Minute: Crop Insurance, Conservation Techniques Revive Great Plains Agriculture

Dan April 25, 2025American Agriculture History Minute, Conservation, Crop Insurance, Economy, Environment, This Land of Ours

I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. Early settlers discovered that the Great Plains were not all that great. They found very harsh climate with tornadoes, blizzards, drought, …

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Homestead Act

American Agriculture History Minute: Homestead Act of 1862

Dan April 24, 2025American Agriculture History Minute, This Land of Ours

I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. The federal government issued 160-acre tracts to about 400,000 families who settled a new land under the Homestead Act 1862. Even …

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western Great Plains

American Agriculture History Minute: Western Great Plains Becomes Open Cattle Range

Dan April 23, 2025American Agriculture History Minute, Cattle, This Land of Ours

I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. The western Great Plains became open range country hosting cattle ranching. In the spring and fall ranchers held roundups where the …

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British

American Agriculture History Minute: British Attempt Restriction of Westward Expansion

Dan April 22, 2025American Agriculture History Minute, This Land of Ours

I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. The British government attempted to restrict westward expansion with the ineffective proclamation line of 1763 that was abolished by the new …

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