according to the work of carl's sauer, no agricultural Innovations occured in the us

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according to the work of carl's sauer, no agricultural Innovations occured in the us

Answer 1

That would be an unusual interpretation of Carl Sauer's works on agriculture as a cultural landscape. It is important to remember that technology is also cultural, in that it shapes the ways humans interact with each other and the broader environment. Technology ranges from the hoe to till the fields to new agrichemical treatments to prepare the soil for common commodity crops. Sauer writes extensively on different technological cultural practices of agriculture in the "New World" from cassava and potato preparation in what we today desginate as South America and the transition to seed planting in what we know as North America (which would include the contemporary extent of the United States) as well as polycropping techniques such as the Three Sisters (beans, corn and squash). After the United States was founded, agriculture sciences drew and extended from different practices in Europe. The Green Revolution -- pioneered by Norm Borlaug -- helped develop new ways of hybridizing seeds to select for increased crop yield after the disaster of the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression.