three causes of the Agricultural Revolution
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- The increased availability of farmland.
- A favorable climate.
- More livestock.
- Improved crop yield.
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The causes of ag revolutions are pretty simple:
＊ The farmer(s) need higher crop yields in food and fiber to survive, feed growing families and non-farming populations, and have salable outputs (grain, wine, beer, dried fruit, cured and smoked meats, wool, cotton, hemp, tea, vegetables, onions, potatoes, animal feed, horses, donkeys, mules, camels, muskoxen, eggs, feathers, etc..)
＊ Taxes from local and national government rising to pay for wars, defenses, and lifestyles of aristocrats. So yields have to go up and often different, better-paying crops and livestock emphasized which require a lot of adaptation often resulting in ag revolutions like farm mechanization, breeding cattle for greater milk yields, more experiments with animal feed mixes and top soil amendments, etc.
＊ Workforce shortages have always been big drivers for ag revolutions whether sparsely populated regions or post-plague survivors as well as the exhausting and low productivity nature of doing most farm work by hand. That’s driven animal-pulled/steam-powered/gas-powered plows, threshers, reapers, tillers, seed planters, organic and synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, bee pollination, grain mills, waterwheels, windmills, farm electrification, egg incubators, cream separators, refrigeration, farm wagons and then trucks, etc.