Editing Industrial Revolution (section)

===Agriculture===
The British Agricultural Revolution raised crop yields and released labour for industrial employment,<ref name="Overton">{{cite book |last=Overton |first=Mark |title=Agricultural Revolution in England: The Transformation of the Agrarian Economy 1500–1850 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1996 |page=129 |isbn=978-0-521-56859-3}}</ref> although per-capita food supply in much of Europe remained stagnant until the late 18th century.<ref name="Pomeranz">{{cite book |last=Pomeranz |first=Kenneth |title=The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2000 |page=204 |isbn=978-0-691-09010-8}}</ref> Key innovations included Jethro Tull's early 18th-century mechanical seed drill (1701), which ensured more even sowing and depth control,<ref>{{cite book |last=Temple |first=Robert |title=The Nation of Iron: An Illustrated History of the Iron and Steel Industries |publisher=Macmillan |year=1986 |page=26}}</ref> Joseph Foljambe's iron Rotherham plough (c. 1730)<ref name="Overton" /> and Andrew Meikle's threshing machine (1784), which reduced manual labour requirements.<ref name="Clark2007"/> Hand [[threshing]] with a [[Flail (tool)|flail]], was a laborious job that had taken about one-quarter of agricultural labour,<ref name="Clark2007">{{Harvnb|Clark|2007}}</ref>{{rp|286}} lower labour requirements resulted in lower wages and fewer labourers, who faced near starvation, leading to the 1830 [[Swing Riots]].