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French

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Agricultural progress, for example: three major progressive owners in the English Channel (1820-1860)

Abstract

Before the development of agricultural education and the creation of professional bodies, the dissemination of agronomic knowledge and innovation was based, for most farmers, on the imitation of progress made by farmers who had sufficient resources to learn and experiment. In this article we refer to three very large owners of the Channel who, between 1820 and 1835, regained their direct occupation of all or part of their land in order to develop the innovative farming practices which their readings and study trips had inspired them. One of them developed an extraordinary farm, by processing its crop production in such a way as to increase the added value of its products and to have residues enabling it to develop its livestock. They set themselves the objective of disseminating progress around them, for example, by preventing their farmers or neighbours from having to bear the costs of experimentation. To this end, they drew up notices designed to publicise widely the practices they had developed. [author’s summary]

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