Agricultural equipment is any kind of

machinery A machine is a physical system that uses power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action. The term is commonly applied to artificial devices, such as those employing engines or motors, but also to natural biological macromolec ...

used on a

farm A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production. The name is used fo ...

to help with

farming Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

. The best-known example of this kind is the

tractor A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a Trailer (vehicle), trailer or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or constructio ...

2010-04-07 Unimog at Arthur Ibbetts machinery dealership

Tractor and power

Tractor A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a Trailer (vehicle), trailer or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or constructio ...

/ Two-wheel tractor * Tracked tractor / Caterpillar tractor

Soil cultivation

* Cultipacker * Cultivator (of two main variations) ** Dragged teeth (also called shanks) that pierce the soil. ** Rotary motion of disks or teeth. Examples are: Power tiller / Rotary tiller / Rototiller / Bedtiller / Mulch tiller / Rotavator * Harrow (e.g. Spike harrow, Drag harrow, Disk harrow) * Land imprinter *

Plow A plough or (Differences between American and British spellings, US) plow (both pronounced ) is a farm tool for loosening or turning the soil before sowing seed or planting. Ploughs were traditionally drawn by oxen and horses but modern ploughs ...

plough A plough or ( US) plow (both pronounced ) is a farm tool for loosening or turning the soil before sowing seed or planting. Ploughs were traditionally drawn by oxen and horses but modern ploughs are drawn by tractors. A plough may have a wooden ...

(various specialized types) * Roller * Stone / Rock / Debris removal implement (e.g. Destoner, Rock windrower / rock rake, Stone picker / picker) * Strip till toolbar (and a variation called Zone till subsoiler) * Subsoiler * Ridger

Planting

Seed drill file:7263 Canterbury Agricultural College farm.jpg, Filling a feed-box of a seed drill, Lincoln University (New Zealand), Canterbury Agricultural College farm, 1948 A seed drill is a device used in agriculture that sowing, sows seeds for crops by ...

(box drill, air drill) * Planter * Potato planter * Trowel * Seed-counting machine

Fertilizers and pesticides dispenser

* Liquid manure/slurry spreader and Liquid manure fertilizer spreader (e.g. slurry tanker or Terragator) *Dry Manure spreader (e.g. Terragator) * Sprayer

Irrigation

* Drip irrigation/micro spray heads * Sprinkler system * Center pivot irrigation *

Hydroponics Hydroponics is a type of horticulture and a subset of #Passive sub-irrigation, hydroculture which involves growing plants, usually crops or medicinal plants, without soil, by using water-based mineral Plant nutrition, nutrient Solution (chemi ...

Produce sorter

* Blemish sorter. * Colour sorter * Density Sorter * Diameter sorter * Internal/taste sorter * Shape sorter * Weight sorter

Harvesting / post-harvest processing

* Buckrake—for

silage Silage is fodder made from green foliage crops which have been preserved by fermentation (food), fermentation to the point of souring. It is fed to cattle, sheep and other ruminants. The fermentation and storage process is called ''ensilage'', ' ...

making * Grain cart (with built in grain auger) * Conveyor belt * Cotton picker * Farm truck * Grain dryer *Harvestor / harvester built for harvesting specific crops. (e.g. Bean harvester, Beet harvester, Carrot harvester, Combine (grain) harvester /

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, Header, Corn harvester, Forage or silage harvester, Grape harvester, Over-the-row mechanical harvester for harvesting apples, Potato harvester, Potato spinner/digger which is becoming obsolete, and Sugarcane harvester. Variations of harvesters are stripper cleaners and stripper loaders. * Multi crop Harvester * Haulm topper * Mechanical tree shaker and other orchard equipment * Mower * Rake * Reaper-binder (now mostly replaced by the swather) *

Rice huller A rice huller or rice husker is an agricultural machinery, agricultural machine used to automate the process of removing the chaff (the outer husks) of grains of rice. Throughout history, there have been numerous techniques to hull rice. Trad ...

* Swather (more common in the northern United States and Canada) *

Wagon A wagon (or waggon) is a heavy four-wheeled vehicle pulled by Working animal#Draft animals, draft animals or on occasion by humans, used for transporting goods, commodities, agricultural materials, supplies and sometimes people. Wagons are i ...

(and variations of gravity wagons, trailers—e.g. silage trailers, grain hopper trailers and lighter, two-wheeled carts) File:Swather.jpg, A swather File:Coffee Harvester Mareeba.JPG, Coffee bean Harvester, Mareeba, Queensland,

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File:CTM Johnson Tomato Harvester.JPG, CTM Johnson Tomato Harvester File:Module Express.JPG, Case IH Module Express 625 picks cotton and simultaneously builds cotton modules.

Hand harvesting

* Flail *

Sickle A sickle, bagging hook, reaping-hook or grasshook is a single-handed agricultural tool designed with variously curved blades and typically used for harvesting or reaping grain crops, or cutting Succulent plant, succulent forage chiefly for feedi ...

(hand-held) *

Scythe A scythe (, rhyming with ''writhe'') is an agriculture, agricultural hand-tool for mowing grass or Harvest, harvesting Crop, crops. It was historically used to cut down or reaping, reap edible grain, grains before they underwent the process of ...

* Winnower (mechanized into the winnowing machine, which has been replaced by the

combine harvester The modern combine harvester, also called a combine, is a machine designed to harvest a variety of cultivated seeds. Combine harvesters are one of the most economically important labour-saving inventions, significantly reducing the fraction of ...

Hay making

* Bale lifter (also called Bale mover or Bale spike) * Bale wrapper * Baler *

Hay rake A hay rake is an agricultural rake (tool), rake used to collect cut hay or straw into windrows for later collection (e.g. by a baler or a loader wagon). It is also designed to fluff up the hay and turn it over so that it may dry. It is also use ...

* Hay tedder *Loader wagon / self-loading wagon – used in Europe, but not common in USA * Mower-conditioners

Hand hay tool

* Hay fork * Wooden rake

Loading

* Backhoe/

backhoe loader A backhoe loader, also called a loader backhoe, loader excavator, tractor excavator, digger or colloquially shortened to backhoe within the industry, is a heavy equipment (construction), heavy equipment vehicle that consists of a tractor-like u ...

* Front end loader * Skid-steer loader * Telescopic handler *Tractor-mounted

forklift A forklift (also called industrial truck, lift truck, jitney, hi-lo, fork truck, fork hoist, and forklift truck) is a powered industrial truck used to lift and move materials over short distances. The forklift was developed in the early 20th c ...

Milking

* Bulk tank * Milking machine * Milking pipeline

Animal Feeding

Grinder-mixer A grinder-mixer is a type of agricultural machine used to process livestock feed from grain A grain is a small, hard, dry fruit (caryopsis) – with or without an attached husk, hull layer – harvested for human or animal consumption. A grain ...

Other

* Agricultural robots *

Allen Scythe The Allen Scythe, sometimes called the Allen Power Scythe, is a petrol-powered finger-bar mower. It was made from 1933 until 1973 by John Allen and Sons in Cowley, Oxfordshire. The company, formerly the Eddison and Nodding Company, was bought in 18 ...

* Aquatic weed harvester *Bale splitter * Chillcuring * Conveyor analyzer * Feed grinder * Hedge cutter * Hedge trimmer * Livestock trailer * Motor Bikes (used on large cattle stations and ranches) * Mixer-wagon (diet feeder) * Mulching machine * Post driver (and hand tool) * Quad Bikes * Shear Grab (and power link box) * Trailer * Yard scraper

Obsolete farm machinery

Steam Steam is water vapor, often mixed with air or an aerosol of liquid water droplets. This may occur due to evaporation or due to boiling, where heat is applied until water reaches the enthalpy of vaporization. Saturated or superheated steam is inv ...

-powered: * Portable engine *

Stationary steam engine Stationary steam engines are fixed steam engines used for pumping or driving mills and factories, and for power generation. They are distinct from locomotive engines used on railways, traction engines for heavy steam haulage on roads, steam car ...

Threshing machine A threshing machine or a thresher is a piece of agricultural machinery, farm equipment that separates grain seed from the plant stem, stalks and husks. It does so by beating the plant to make the seeds fall out. Before such machines were developed ...

(replaced by the

) *

Traction engine A traction engine is a steam engine, steam-powered tractor used to move heavy loads on roads, plough ground or to provide power at a chosen location. The name derives from the Latin ''tractus'', meaning 'drawn', since the prime function of any ...

(e.g. Agricultural engine, Ploughing engine,

Steam tractor A steam tractor is a tractor powered by a steam engine which is used for pulling. In North America, the term ''steam tractor'' usually refers to a type of agriculture, agricultural tractor powered by a steam engine, used extensively in the l ...

) Other: * Drag harrow * Hog oiler * Reaper (replaced by the

and Reaper-binder) * Winnowing machine/ Winnowing-fan

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