Crime and Punishment, The Colonial Period to The New Frontier Book

This book engaged me from start to finish. In fact, I hated to see it end. I was encouraged to read it by an advisor because of my current involvement in starting an ag technology business. The central story of the bi-rotor combine is used the thread around which other historic ag technology develop stories are woven.

The writer tells these stories so well that I was usually dying to skip ahead and find out which ag success (or failure) store he was building up to. The chapter on herbicides had me wondering which popular herbicide all the prior work eventually led to. I knew it wasn't Roundup because the story was about Dow Chemical. I was patient and let the story unfold.

If you have an connection with agriculture, which I do, then you'l find this fascinating. If you don't, you will likely be amazed at the stories of developments and involvement by people like Henry Ford or the increases in production brought about by families of inventors such as the Wallaces'.