British Agricultural Revolution

The sustained rise in British farm output between the 17th and 19th centuries, built on the Norfolk four-course rotation, clover and turnips, Bakewell's livestock breeding, Tull's drill and the enclosure of common fields. It fed a doubling population and freed the labor that filled the factories, which is why historians treat it as the necessary precondition of the Industrial Revolution, while enclosure's dispossession of smallholders is part of the same ledger. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/