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Why were the reaper and the steel plow important for nineteenth-century agriculture?.

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Answer:The machine's speed increased crop yields, decreased the number of farmhands needed, and helped turn the Midwest into the nation's breadbasket region. Because farmers were able to harvest wheat so quickly, they began to plant more of it

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