Agriculture: then and now - Harvesting grain (Video)
How much time does a combine harvester save the average farmer today compared to 150 years ago? We’ve come a long way.
Video transcript
[Upbeat music.]
[White background]
Text on screen: agriculture: then and now
Text on screen: harvesting grain
[Fade to a black and white picture of an old man with a scythe.]
Text on screen: then
Female narrator:
Then: Farmers used a simple scythe to harvest their grain. They could cut an acre a day.
Text on screen: 1 acre
[An icon of a clock with its hands turning appears next to text.]
Then they had to thresh it. An average farm was small and it fed about five people,
Text on screen: fed 5 people
…mostly the family living on the farm.
[Image changes to a black and white picture of a man looking at a combine harvester in action.]
Text on screen: now
[Picture gradually turns to colour.]
Now: With a combine harvester, farmers can cut and thresh 150 acres of grain a day.
Text on screen: 150 acres
[An icon of a clock with its hands turning appears next to text.]
The average farm today is larger and it feeds more than 120 people –
Text on screen: feeds 120+ people
…here and around the world.
[Fade to white.]
We’ve come a long way.
Text on screen: We’ve come a long way.
[Upbeat music fades out.]
[Canada wordmark]
Text on screen: (c) Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, represented by the Minister for Agriculture and Agri-Food (2017)
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