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Agricultural equipment is any kind of
machinery used on a
farm to help with
farming. The best-known example of this kind is the
tractor.
From left to right: John Deere 7800 tractor with Houle slurry trailer, Case IH combine harvester, New Holland FX 25
forage harvester with corn head.
Unimog with a
flail hedge and verge trimmer implement used in
agroforestry
Tractor and power
Farm mechanization in Ontario and Quebec; illustrating a tractor
Soil cultivation
Harrow in use in 1948 at
Canterbury Agricultural College farm
Historic huge specialist "plough" for maintaining drainage ditches in East Germany
Planting
Fertilizers and pesticides dispenser
Irrigation
Produce sorter
A belt sorter for peas
- Blemish sorter.
- Colour sorter
- Density Sorter
- Diameter sorter
- Internal/taste sorter
- Shape sorter
- Weight sorter
Harvesting / post-harvest processing
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Buckrake—for
silage making
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Grain cart (with built in
grain auger)
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Conveyor belt
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Cotton picker
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Farm truck
-
Grain dryer
- Harvestor / harvester built for harvesting specific crops. (e.g.
Bean harvester,
Beet harvester,
Carrot harvester,
Combine (grain) harvester /
Stripper,
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.
A Frost & Wood reaper- binder being used in the
Rainy River District in the 1900s.
Hand harvesting
Winnowing machine from 1839
Hay making
Round baler in action
Hand hay tool
Loading
A "
backhoe loader"
A restored JCB 3C MkII, showing the conventional arrangement of front loader and backhoe
Milking
Animal Feeding
Other
TOL Tree Trimmer
A mulching machine
Obsolete farm machinery
A Geiser threshing machine
Steam-powered:
Other:
External links
Media related to
Agricultural machines at Wikimedia Commons