A transplanter is an agricultural machine used for transplanting

seedlings A seedling is a young sporophyte developing out of a plant embryo from a seed. Seedling development starts with germination of the seed. A typical young seedling consists of three main parts: the radicle (embryonic root), the hypocotyl (embry ...

to the field. Transplanters greatly reduce time required to transplant seedlings compared to manual transplanting. Among the crops that are transplanted with transplanters are strawberries, vegetables, tomatoes, cabbages, tobacco and rice. Semi-automatic mechanical transplanters are a common type, which can be self-propelled, or towed by a

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 ...

at a low speed. A row of three to six operators feed seedlings from

germination Germination is the process by which an organism grows from a seed or spore. The term is applied to the sprouting of a seedling from a seed of an angiosperm or gymnosperm, the growth of a sporeling from a spore, such as the spores of fungi, ...

trays into hoppers which feed into the delivery mechanism.

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File:Pflanzmaschine-02.JPG, Five-row transplanter being towed by a

Massey Ferguson Massey Ferguson is an agricultural machinery manufacturer, established in 1953 through the merger of farm equipment makers Massey-Harris of Canada and the Ferguson Company of Ireland. It was based in Coventry then moved to Beauvais in 2003 when ...

6265 tractor. File:Kartoffelpflanzer.jpg, Potato transplanter. File:Sadzarka talerzowa dwurzędowa.jpg, Two-row disk transplanter. File:Nursery stock transplanter.jpg, Nursery stock transplanter. File:Transplanter Super-prefer (Laktaši).jpg, Self-propelled transplanter.

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