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List of agricultural machinery

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Main article: Agricultural machinery

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.

Tractor and power

''Farm mechanization in Ontario and Quebec''; illustrating a tractor
  • Tractor / Two-wheel tractor
  • Tracked tractor / Caterpillar tractor

Soil cultivation

Historic huge specialist "plough" for maintaining drainage ditches in East Germany
  • 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 or plough (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

  • Mole plough

Planting

  • Seed drill (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

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

  • Buckrake—for silage 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 / 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.
  • Multi crop Harvester
  • Haulm topper
  • Mechanical tree shaker and other orchard equipment
  • Mower
  • Rake
  • Reaper-binder (now mostly replaced by the swather)
  • Rice huller
  • Swather (more common in the northern United States and Canada)
  • Wagon (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, Australia 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

Winnowing machine from 1839
  • Flail
  • Sickle (hand-held)
  • Scythe
  • Winnower (mechanized into the winnowing machine, which has been replaced by the combine harvester

Hay making

Round baler in action
  • Bale lifter (also called Bale mover or Bale spike)
  • Bale wrapper
  • Baler
  • Hay rake
  • 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
  • Front end loader
  • Skid-steer loader
  • Telescopic handler
  • Tractor-mounted forklift

Milking

  • Bulk tank
  • Milking machine
  • Milking pipeline

Animal Feeding

  • Grinder-mixer

Other

TOL Tree Trimmer
A mulching machine
  • Agricultural robots
  • Allen Scythe
  • 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

A Geiser threshing machine

Steam-powered:

  • Portable engine
  • Stationary steam engine
  • Threshing machine (replaced by the combine harvester)
  • Traction engine (e.g. Agricultural engine, Ploughing engine, Steam tractor) Other:
  • Drag harrow
  • Hog oiler
  • Reaper (replaced by the Stripper and Reaper-binder)
  • Winnowing machine/Winnowing-fan
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