There was an Enormous change in Farming between 1750&1900.Were people Better off as a result of these changes?

Question

Im talking about the British Agricultural Change....

I have to write an essay 500-600 words ..

Enclosure

Crop Rotation

Changes In Animals

Mechanisation

*(I've tried the Internet but it dosen't really give me About WHETHER PEOPLE WERE BETTER OFF WITH THESE CHANGES.

Please Help me

I would really appreciate it! thanks

Answer 1

i am irish . in 1848  we had the potato blight. this was a disease that caused the main crop of ireland at thetime to rot. the result being large scale famine. if crop rotation was used at the timemost families would have survived. look up the Great Famine on google and you should be able to get more information. hope this example helps

Answer 2

Check out the Tolpuddle Martyrs they were a group of farmers form Tolpuddle, Dorchester in 1834... they started the first trades union for a fair wadge...I believe they contributed greatly towards a change in farming & I am proud to call them my ancestors!

Answer 3

The answer depends on two things:

1.  the specific changes to which you're referring,

2.   the particular groups of people who were affected by the changes.  

You can bet that different classes were affected by e.g. enclosure in different ways.  Smallholders, or at any rate peasant farmers, were worse off as a result of enclosure.  Rich landowners were better off.  You can easily figure out why.

Answer 4

Yes they were better off, more food was produced & made available to more of the population. However don't forget many city dwellers lived in poverty & did not have the same acess to the abundance. Much of what Charles Dickens wrote of was all too true.

Answer 5

well better machines would mean jobs were completed quicker and the farmer would have more time to spend on other jobs, or their leisure time.

Feed became more advanced and therefore animals would become stronger.

also check out the industrial revolution and the affects this had on the countryside (everyone left to go to the cities)

good luck

Answer 6

Sounds like an opinion essay--if you support your answer well it doesn't matter whether you say yes or no.  Did crop rotation result in better or worse quality crops?  Did mechanisation make planting, reaping, and handling crops easier or harder?  Did animals become larger/smaller, more or less healthy, more or less productive (milk, meat, etc.)?  If you've been paying attention in class, I'm sure you've developed some thoughts on this...

Answer 7

It's an opinion paper, find some references, read some books, get to know what happened.  Then form your opinion and write an essay with justified facts that make your opinion valid (in your mind), and (try) to make other opinions somewhat invalid.

Crop rotation, for example, allowed more crops.  The result is more people could be fed, but also that fewer people needed to be farmers.  Thus, a new class of workers emerged that had time to not farm.  They could work in factories and make money to buy their food.  This spawned the industrial revolution, life as we now understand it in the 1st world.