{"id":75207,"date":"2024-02-19T04:00:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/?p=75207"},"modified":"2024-02-20T13:20:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T18:20:05","slug":"past-us-presidents-founding-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/past-us-presidents-founding-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidents Who Were The Nation&#8217;s Founding Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"s2\">Presidents were also the nation&#8217;s founding farmers as the young nation\u2019s political and thought leaders knew the importance of agriculture and\u2014more importantly, sustainable agriculture\u2014to America\u2019s success. They wrote about how to grow enough food to feed a booming population and how to boost soil health. Our presidents also learned how to farm in a way that prevents soil erosion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">F<\/span>rom Mount Vernon to Monticello, many of the key conservation practices that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usda.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USDA<\/a> recommends producers use on their farms have roots with our founding farmers. These presidents include George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, as well as innovators such as Ben Franklin.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p5\"><b>A Farmer First<\/b><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cFarming technique was Washington\u2019s principal intellectual discipline, his favorite topic of conversation and the focus of his private correspondence,\u201d says historian Garry Wills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">When British troops closed in on New York City in 1776, then-Gen. Washington temporarily put aside his battle plans to pen a letter to the steward of Mount Vernon about his farm.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_75211\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75211\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-75211 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/shutterstock_1181386489.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newhobbyfarms.com\/2zQVBjl5-shutterstock_1181386489-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newhobbyfarms.com\/shutterstock_1181386489-433x250.jpg 433w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newhobbyfarms.com\/shutterstock_1181386489-600x347.jpg 600w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newhobbyfarms.com\/shutterstock_1181386489-623x360.jpg 623w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/shutterstock_1181386489.jpg 800w\" alt=\"presidents\" width=\"800\" height=\"462\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Vernon (Wang Sing\/Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"p5\"><b>Presidents Had the \u201cFirst\u201d Crop Experiment Stations<\/b><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p3\">Washington studied and implemented ways to improve his farming methods at Mount Vernon, his 8,000-acre homestead and network of farms in Virginia near what would later become Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Washington took meticulous notes, and he experimented quite often. The same is true of Jefferson, the nation\u2019s third president, known for hundreds of varieties of fruits, vegetables and herbs grown at Monticello near Charlottesville, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">With everything so unstudied<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"s3\">soils, weather, crops, pests, weeds and farming methods<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"s3\">the founding farmers ran unofficial demonstration farms. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Franklin, although known for his inventions, bought a New Jersey farm where he retired. He managed the land like a \u201cminiature experiment station, carrying on projects in drainage, in crop rotation and especially in the utilization of the newer grasses and liming and fertilization,\u201d wrote historian Earle D. Ross.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">And of Washington, historian Albert Bushnell Hart wrote: \u201cHe established what I believe to have been the first agricultural experiment station in American history.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/presidential-poultry-chickens-of-u-s-presidents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Presidential Pets: Chickens of U.S. Presidents<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 class=\"p5\"><b>Presidents Were Early Conservationists<\/b><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p3\">Unknowingly, our early presidents were among the earliest proponents of soil health in America. They used crop rotations and organic fertilizers to boost soil health and production. Many of the farming methods implemented on their farms align with conservation practices that USDA recommends to farmers today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Ten years after the republic was born, Washington began to reconfigure fields on his farms. He changed from a one-crop tobacco system to a seven-crop system growing wheat, corn and legumes. Wheat was the principal cash crop and corn fed his livestock. Legumes,in turn, fed the soil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">America\u2019s fifth president, James Monroe, was also a farmer. He left tobacco for a multi-crop system of grains. Historian Harlow Giles Unger wrote: \u201cTo keep his fields fertile, he rotated his crops, setting some fields aside for a season of clover \u2026 to revitalize the soil.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_75210\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75210\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-75210 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/shutterstock_1008377398.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newhobbyfarms.com\/uy6vOTQO-shutterstock_1008377398-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newhobbyfarms.com\/shutterstock_1008377398-433x250.jpg 433w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newhobbyfarms.com\/shutterstock_1008377398-600x347.jpg 600w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newhobbyfarms.com\/shutterstock_1008377398-623x360.jpg 623w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/shutterstock_1008377398.jpg 800w\" alt=\"presidents\" width=\"800\" height=\"462\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Montpelier Station (Andriy Blokhin\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"p5\"><b>Not Going out of Style<\/b><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p3\">Conservation crop rotation is among more than 100 conservation practices the USDA\u2019s Natural Resources Conservation Service helps farmers plan and implement because of its many benefits to soil and production. Similarly, contour farming and cover crops, which were found on farms on the early days of our republic, are still used today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">While visiting France, Jefferson saw farmers planting to the contour of the land rather than in straight lines. He wrote: \u201cOur country is hilly, and we have been in the habit of ploughing in straight rows \u2026 and our soil was rapidly running into rivers.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">He also used contour farming at Monticello, putting him ahead of his contemporaries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Washington\u2019s cropping systems included cover crops to prevent erosion and improve soil. Mount Vernon researcher Jinny Fox wrote: \u201cHe rotates crops; first he tries buckwheat and later switches to clover.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/6-simple-steps-to-crop-rotation-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here are 6 simple steps to implement crop rotation in your growing area.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 class=\"p5\"><b>Help for Farmers<\/b><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Lincoln was raised on farms in Indiana and Illinois. Who would know better than a farmer-turned-president about the importance of the government supporting agriculture? He advocated for the creation of the USDA and signed the law that created it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">More than 150 years later, the USDA offers a variety of risk management, disaster, loan and conservation programs to help agricultural producers build resiliency and endure the ups and downs of the market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">For more information on conservation practices<span class=\"s2\">\u2014<\/span>including conservation crop rotation, contour farming and cover crops<span class=\"s2\">\u2014<\/span>as well as other USDA programs and services, contact your nearest USDA service center.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article about presidents that were farmers originally appeared in the May\/June 2019 issue of Hobby Farms<\/em>\u00a0<em>magazine. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/subscribe-new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to subscribe.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidents Knew How Important Agriculture is to America&#8217;s Success<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8663,"featured_media":75209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farm-management","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.0 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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