Agricultural Revolution United States

The Agricultural Revolution in the United States was based largely on the massive introduction of new varieties of plants animals new machinery and the use of chemical fertilizers pesticides and irrigation. In 1944 Norman Borlaug and his colleagues found in Mexico exhausted fields, Their initial aim was to develop a variety of wheat which was adaptable to many different areas which were resistant to disease and was very Hardy. the wheat used by Mexican Farmers had long stems naturally evolved over the ages in an effort to rise above the shade of surrounding weeds. When the demand for this wheat was increased the heavy seeds bent the thin stems over causing a problem and a loss of crops. using two experimental plots one of the north of Mexico and the other near Mexico City Bold and the CIMMYT team found a Japanese species of wheat it was short-stemmed wheat and developed a high-yielding variety that greatly increases production. With this success in the Green Revolution the notation that world hunger could be solved at least in the short run by the adoption of these new varieties of grains in the new methods that would allow them to work their miracles. …show more content…
Firstly using logos in Borlaug's Nobel Prize acceptance speech he structured his arguments logically to aid in his audience's understanding of the problems with the population growth and the struggle for the disperse of food in a large population. “There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common