Pictured above: Kenny Buchheit on The Gray Tractor
October 22nd is Old Farmer’s Day.
“And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, ‘I need a caretaker.’ So God made a farmer.”
Our nation was built upon the rugged shoulders and stubborn personalities of farmers and Buchheit has been serving farmers since 1934.
Farming began around 10,000 B.C, but the agricultural revolution did not take off in America until the 18th century. Here are some inventions that helped shape agriculture as we know it today.
- 1701 Jethro Tull invents a seed drill, helping to sow straight lines.
- 1793 Eli Whitney creates the cotton gin, quickly separating cotton fibers and seeds.
- 1837 the McCormick reaper is patented and helps farmers cut small grain crops.
- 1837 John Deere invents the first commercially successful steel plow.
- 1842 the first grain elevator is built in Buffalo, New York.
- 1865 Hand power switches to horse power.
- 1874 Joseph Gidden patented barbed wire.
- 1892 John Froelich builds the first gasoline tractor. He helped start the Waterloo Gasoline Traction Engine Company which created the tractor pictured.
- 1934 Rudy Buchheit opened his first General Store
Don’t forget to thank a farmer today!
