Discover how the 2,170-mile Oregon Trail helped over 400,000 settlers expand American agriculture before the transcontinental railroad changed ...

“The Spinach King” tells the story of the Seabrook Farms, a major American vegetable supplier, and its patriarch, Charles Franklin Seabrook. The book explores agricultural history, family drama, and ...

The Section of Agriculture, Division of Agriculture and Mining, dates back to 1921, when specimens and models of agricultural implements and objects relating to the history of agriculture in this ...

The story of American agricultural history runs through Iowa, and during Iowa History Month, it’s a great time to explore the intersection of agriculture and Iowa history. In the late nineteenth and ...

Discover how Colorado’s agriculture began—from Native American “Three Sisters” farming to Gold Rush settlers transforming the Arkansas Valley ...

Agriculture has played an indelible role in the Yakima Valley’s history. As the world has modernized, it’s easy to forget the history of early farming and agriculture. Luckily, to help preserve that ...

Founded in 1785, the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture is considered the nation’s oldest agricultural society.

Have you ever wondered where our agricultural crops come from? And what were they like thousands of years ago, or hundreds of years ago? Our food crops today are in fact very different from the ...

R. Douglas Hurt, professor and head of Purdue’s Department of History, can talk about the history of American agriculture, including the economic, industrial and social role that state fairs play in ...

MARSHFIELD – How is a fair born? In 1862, in the midst of the Civil War, local farmers Levi Walker and George Martin Baker were looking for a way for residents to come together to discuss agriculture.