National Museum of American History Looks at Agriculture History in "American Enterprise" Exhibition

WASHINGTON, April 27, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History will open a new exhibition on American business July 1 in the Mars Hall of American Business. The exhibition, "American Enterprise" will have a strong focus on the nation's agriculture history which is one of four economic sectors in the exhibition. It will explore precision farming, environmental concerns and hybrid seeds.

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"American agriculture has gone through a tremendous transformation in the past seven decades, becoming a high-tech industry, deeply affecting not just farmers themselves but every American and the American experience in general," said Peter Liebhold, museum curator and chair of the Division of Work and Industry.

The companion book, American Enterprise: A History of Business in America, will highlight significant artifacts from agriculture's humble beginnings to the technological advances that make it a leading industry in the United States.

Among the agriculture objects in the exhibition are a Fordson tractor from the mid-1920s when farmers began to move away from horse-drawn equipment and started using mechanical innovations; signage for environmentally friendly farming methods; and a Roundup Ready promotional souvenir from 1996 when herbicide-resistant soybeans became widely used biotech crops.

SOURCE Smithsonian's National Museum of American History

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