Farm equipment
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Farm equipment is any kind of machinery used on a farm to help with farming. The best-known example of this kind of equipment is the tractor.
Contents
- 1 List of Farm Implements
- 1.0.1 Traction and Power
- 1.0.2 Planting
- 1.0.3 Fertilizing & Pest Control
- 1.0.4 Irrigation
- 1.0.5 Harvesting / Post-Harvest
- 1.0.6 Hay Making
- 1.1 Loading
- 1.2 Obsolete Farm Machinery
List of Farm Implements
Traction and Power
- cultivator
- chisel plow
- disk harrow
- spike harrow or drag
- plough (not used nearly as much as in past)
- rototiller
- spading machine
- subsoiler
Planting
- broadcast seeder (mostly obsolete)
- planter
- plastic mulch layer
- potato planter
- seed drill
- transplanter
- *rice transplanter
Fertilizing & Pest Control
- fertilizer spreader
- Terragator
- manure spreader
- sprayer
Irrigation
Harvesting / Post-Harvest
- sickle
- bean harvester
- combine harvester
- conveyor belt
- corn harvester
- cotton picker
- forage harvester (or silage harvester)
- potato digger
- swather
Hay Making
Loading
- Backhoe *Front End Loader
- [Skid-Steer Loader]
Other
- grain auger
- feed grinder
- grain cart
- rock picker
Obsolete Farm Machinery
- binder
- hay rack
- hog oiler
- reaper
- (stationary) steam engine
- steam traction engine
- threshing machine
See also
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