Top 5 Ag Attractions in the Exhibit
There’s so much to see at the new American Enterprise exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of American History that it can be hard to know where to start.
With an average of 20,000 daily visitors and even more on weekends and holidays, it helps to have a game plan.
If a visit to Washington D.C. is in your future, here are 5 agriculture-related areas at the American Enterprise exhibit that you won’t want to miss.
Farming Challenge
In the 1920s, Henry Ford and his engineers applied techniques developed in the automobile industry to revolutionize tractor production. An example of their products is one of the centerpieces of the exhibit. They implemented mass production, assembly lines, large factories, and specialized machinery. Mass production lowered prices as many farmers began to move away from horse-drawn equipment to more mechanization.
Fordson Tractor
In the 1920s, Henry Ford and his engineers applied techniques developed in the automobile industry to revolutionize tractor production. An example of their products is one of the centerpieces of the exhibit. They implemented mass production, assembly lines, large factories, and specialized machinery. Mass production lowered prices as many farmers began to move away from horse-drawn equipment to more mechanization.
Tribute to Norman Borlaug
Dr. Borlaug is known for developing wheat hybrids adapted to diverse growing conditions and featuring high yield potential. Those new wheat varieties and improved crop-management practices transformed agricultural production and sparked what is known as the “Green Revolution.” Because of his achievements to prevent hunger and famine around the world, it is said that Dr. Borlaug saved more than a billion people from starvation.
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