Many different technologies were introduced during the industrial revolution. These technologies changed Britain, productivity was increased and more could be done, not only technologies changed Britain but also techniques. Some of these technologies include the seed drill and the Rotterdam Plough. some contained iron parts. Some of the techniques included the four crop rotation method and the farm enclosure method. 

 Jethro Tull invented an improved seed drill in 1701. It was a mechanical seeder which distributed seeds evenly across a farm land. It also planted them at the correct depth within the ground. This was important because the yield of seeds harvested to seeds planted at the time was around 4-5. Jethro Tull’s seed drill was very expensive and not reliable and therefor didn’t have much of an impact. Good quality seed drills were not produced until the 18th century seed drills were also use full because the seeds were planted inside the soil so that wind couldn’t blow away seeds and birds couldn’t eat them. 

Joseph Foljambe’s Rotterdam plough from 1730, was the first successful iron plough with an iron blade, this was lighter and easier to handle then the wooden ploughs which were used earlier, a Rotterdam plough only required a single farmer and two horses to control while the wooden ploughs required four oxen an Ox driver, and a farmer.

 Lord Charles ‘turnip’ Townsend created the four crop rotation method. The four crop rotation method was invented so that one field could be used as much as possible. In the first year wheat would be grown (which was used for bread), in the second year the field was used for planting turnips (which was winter fodder for the farm animals), in the third year barley was grown (which was used to make beer, flour, and fodder for the farm animals), in the fourth and final year clover roots to enrich soil, as well as animals grazing the soil.

One of the best techniques came as early as the 16th century, it was enclosure, hedges or low stone walls were made to divide the large farm field into smaller even parts, each farmer owned one of these plots of land for themselves. The farmer could plant whatever they wanted in their own land, the walls also protected the farm land, wild animals wouldn’t be able to eat or tromp on the crops. 

These different inventions and techniques changed Britain a lot during that time, people could use better farmland technologies such as the seed drill or the Rotterdam Plough to make their lives easier.