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This year marks the 193rd anniversary of the invention of the McCormick Reaper. This invention started the mechanical revolution in agriculture and forever changed production agriculture around ...
RAPHINE — The Virginia Tech Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Research and Extension Center, McCormick Farm, will host the 18th annual McCormick Farm Mill Day on Saturday, Oct. 5, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Harvester has come a long way since 1831, when Cyrus Hall McCormick invented his reaper in the forge shop of his Virginia farm and laid the groundwork for Harvester’s greatness.
A whirring, horse-drawn reaper lurched through a field of grain on a Virginia farm one day in 1831. Beside it marched two men, one white, one black. The white man was Cyrus McCormick, inventor of ...