The Agricultural Machinery Industry: An Historical Overview from its Origins to its Current Stage of Development

Abstract

This paper seeks to describe the history of the agricultural machinery industry from its origins to its current stage of development, with emphasis on the experience of the United States. Towards this goal, we utilized an analytical and descriptive methodology to summarize and interpret the existing bibliography while producing a timeline for this industry. The main conclusion of this work is that there were four industrial stages of development: the first phase was a pre-industrial age, the second was mass production with innovations, globalization through mergers and acquisitions dominated the third stage, and the current stage is one characterized by the integration of modern technology with precision agriculture. At the end of the article, we discuss points that require further research.