"Seeder" redirects here. For the Peer-to-Peer software concept, see BitTorrent. A seed drill is a device allowing to plant seeds in the soil. Before the introduction of seed drill, the common practice was to "broadcast" seeds by hand. Besides being wasteful, broadcasting was very imprecise and led to a poor repartition of seeds, leading to low productivity. This article is about the protocol. ...
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The seed drill allowed farmers to sow seeds in well-spaced rows at specific depths at a specific seed rate. Prior to this farmers simply cast seeds on the ground, by hand, for them to grow where they landed (broadcasting). Some of the broadcast seeds were cast on unprepared ground where they never germinated, germinated prematurely only to be killed by frost or died from lack of access to water and nutrients.[1] Sowing is the process of planting seeds. ...
This invention gave farmers much greater control over the depth that the seed was planted and the ability to cover the seeds without back-tracking. This greater control meant that seeds germinated consistently and in good soil. A further, very important consideration in the days before selective herbicide was the ability that drilling afforded, to hoe the crop during the course of the growing season. Look up depth in Wiktionary, the free dictionary In classical physics, depth is a distance measured vertically from top to bottom (height) or horizontally from outside to inside (thickness). ...
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History The Sumerians used primitive single-tube seed drills around 1,500 BCE, but the invention never reached Europe. Multi-tube seed drills were invented by the Chinese in the 2nd century BCE.[2] Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 411 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (652 × 951 pixel, file size: 115 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Faithful reproductions of two-dimensional original works cannot attract copyright in the U.S. according to the rule in Bridgeman Art Library v. ...
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Song Yingxing (Traditional Chinese:宋應星; Simplified Chinese:宋应星; Wade Giles: Sung Ying-Hsing; 1587-1666 AD) was a Chinese scientist and encyclopedist who lived during the late Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). ...
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The first known European seed drill was invented by Camillo Torello and patented by the Venetian Senate in 1566. A seed drill with a detailed description is known from Tadeo Cavalina of Bologna in 1602.[2] In England, the seed drill was further refined by Jethro Tull in 1701 in the Industrial Revolution. It is often thought that the seed drill was introduced in Europe following contacts with China, where the invention was very ancient and highly developed.[2] Seed drills would not come into major use in Europe until the mid-19th century. Events January 7 - Pius V becomes Pope Selim II succeeds Suleiman I as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Religious rioting in the Netherlands signifies the beginning of the Eighty Years War in the Netherlands. ...
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Over the years seed drills have become more advanced and sophisticated but the technology has remained substantially the same. The first seed drills were small enough to be drawn by a single horse but the availability of steam and, later, gasoline tractors saw the development of larger and more efficient drills that allowed farmers to seed even larger tracts in a single day.
Recent improvements to drills allow seed-drilling without prior tilling or otherwise preparing the soil. This means that soils subject to erosion or moisture loss are protected until the seed germinates and grows enough to keep the soil in place.
Drilling The term used for the mechanised sowing of an agricultural crop. Sowing is the process of planting seeds. ...
The seed from the hopper of a seed drill is distributed by a seed metering mechanism into a set of tubes arranged to provide a suitable distance between each other to allow optimum growth of the resulting plants. The seed falls into "drills", or channels made by a coulter. Coulter, a surname and place name, may refer to: // Coulter, Lanarkshire in Scotland Coulter, Iowa Coulter a house in Burton-Judson Courts at the University of Chicago Ann Coulter, American political writer Ashley Coulter, Canadian singer Catherine Coulter, American novelist Harris Coulter, PhD., medical historian John Coulter, Australian politician Lynn...
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- ^ a b c "The Genius of China", Robert Temple, p.25
References - "The Genius of China", Robert Temple, ISBN 1853752924
- History Channel, Where Did It Come From? "Episode: Ancient China: Agriculture"
External links - Tiscali encyclopedia article on seed drills
- Conservation tillage
- Zero Tillage seed drilling in Pakistan
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