<P> Industrial technologies that affected farming included the seed drill, the Dutch plough, which contained iron parts, and the threshing machine . </P> <P> Jethro Tull invented an improved seed drill in 1701 . It was a mechanical seeder which distributed seeds evenly across a plot of land and planted them at the correct depth . This was important because the yield of seeds harvested to seeds planted at that time was around four or five . Tull's seed drill was very expensive and not very reliable and therefore did not have much of an impact . Good quality seed drills were not produced until the mid 18th century . </P> <P> Joseph Foljambe's Rotherham plough of 1730 was the first commercially successful iron plough . The threshing machine, invented by Andrew Meikle in 1784, displaced hand threshing with a flail, a laborious job that took about one - quarter of agricultural labour . It took several decades to diffuse and was the final straw for many farm labourers, who faced near starvation, leading to the 1830 agricultural rebellion of the Swing Riots . </P> <P> Machine tools and metalworking techniques developed during the Industrial Revolution eventually resulted in precision manufacturing techniques in the late 19th century for mass - producing agricultural equipment, such as reapers, binders and combine harvesters . </P>

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