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Agricultural equipment is any kind of
machinery A machine is a physical system using 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 macromolecul ...
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 ...
to help with
farming Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled peop ...
. 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 or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or construction. Most comm ...
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Tractor and power

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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 or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or construction. Most comm ...
/ Two-wheel tractor * Tracked tractor / Caterpillar tractor


Soil cultivation

* Cultipacker *
Cultivator A cultivator is a piece of agricultural equipment used for secondary tillage. One sense of the name refers to frames with ''teeth'' (also called ''shanks'') that pierce the soil as they are dragged through it linearly. It also refers to m ...
(of two main variations) ** Dragged teeth (also called shanks) that pierce the soil. ** Rotary motion of disks or teeth. Examples are:
Power tiller Power most often refers to: * Power (physics), meaning "rate of doing work" ** Engine power, the power put out by an engine ** Electric power * Power (social and political), the ability to influence people or events ** Abusive power and control, ...
/ Rotary tiller / Rototiller / Bedtiller / Mulch tiller / Rotavator *
Harrow Harrow may refer to: Places * Harrow, Victoria, Australia * Harrow, Ontario, Canada * The Harrow, County Wexford, a village in Ireland * London Borough of Harrow, England ** Harrow, London, a town in London ** Harrow (UK Parliament constituency) ...
(e.g. Spike harrow, Drag harrow, Disk harrow) * Land imprinter *
Plow A plough or plow (Differences between American and British spellings, US; both ) is a farm tool for loosening or turning the soil before sowing seed or planting. Ploughs were traditionally drawn by oxen and horses, but in modern farms are draw ...
or
plough A plough or plow ( US; both ) is a farm tool for loosening or turning the soil before sowing seed or planting. Ploughs were traditionally drawn by oxen and horses, but in modern farms are drawn by tractors. A plough may have a wooden, iron or ...
* 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


Planting

* Planter * Seed-counting machine *
Seed drill A seed drill is a device used in agriculture that sows seeds for crops by positioning them in the soil and burying them to a specific depth while being dragged by a tractor. This ensures that seeds will be distributed evenly. The seed drill sows ...
(box drill, air drill) * Trowel


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

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Drip irrigation Drip irrigation or trickle irrigation is a type of micro-irrigation system that has the potential to save water and nutrients by allowing water to drip slowly to the roots of plants, either from above the soil surface or buried below the surface. ...
/micro spray heads * Sprinkler system * Center pivot irrigation *
Hydroponics Hydroponics is a type of horticulture and a subset of hydroculture which involves growing plants, usually crops or medicinal plants, without soil, by using water-based mineral nutrient solutions in aqueous solvents. Terrestrial or aquatic plan ...


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 a type of fodder made from green foliage crops which have been preserved by fermentation to the point of acidification. It can be fed to cattle, sheep and other such ruminants ( cud-chewing animals). The fermentation and storage ...
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Grain cart A chaser bin, also called grain cart or (grain) auger wagon, is a trailer towed by a tractor with a built-in auger conveyor system, usually with a large capacity (from several hundred to over 1000 bushels; around is average). Design The ty ...
(with built in
grain auger A screw conveyor or auger conveyor is a mechanism that uses a rotating helical screw blade, called a "''flighting''", usually within a tube, to move liquid or granular materials. They are used in many bulk handling industries. Screw conveyo ...
) * Conveyor belt * Cotton picker * Farm truck * Grain dryer *Harvestor / harvester built for harvesting specific crops. (e.g. Bean harvester,
Beet harvester A Sugarbeet harvester is an agricultural machine for harvesting sugar beet. It was invented by German farmer and agricultural engineer Otto Wilke in 1927. From 1936, series production then started first at Krupp, then later at Lanz (today John D ...
, Carrot harvester, Combine (grain) harvester /
Stripper A stripper or exotic dancer is a person whose occupation involves performing striptease in a public adult entertainment venue such as a strip club. At times, a stripper may be hired to perform at a bachelor party or other private event. Mo ...
, 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 A sugarcane harvester is a large piece of agricultural machinery used to harvest and partially process sugarcane. The machine, originally developed in the 1920s, remains similar in function and design to the combine harvester. Essentially a stora ...
. Variations of harvesters are stripper cleaners and stripper loaders. * Multi crop Harveste

* Potato harvester#Haulm topper, Haulm topper *
Mechanical tree shaker A mechanical tree shaker is a device that uses a hydraulic cylinder to squeeze a tree. It is used in the harvesting of some fruit trees, especially pecans. Tree shakers are also used in the Christmas tree A Christmas tree is a decorated t ...
and other orchard equipment *
Mower A mower is a person or machine that cuts (mows) grass or other plants that grow on the ground. Usually mowing is distinguished from reaping, which uses similar implements, but is the traditional term for harvesting grain crops, e.g. with reapers ...
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Rake Rake may refer to: * Rake (stock character), a man habituated to immoral conduct * Rake (theatre), the artificial slope of a theatre stage Science and technology * Rake receiver, a radio receiver * Rake (geology), the angle between a feature on a ...
* Reaper-binder (now mostly replaced by the
swather A swather (North America), or windrower (Australia and rest of world), is a farm implement that cuts hay or small grain crops and forms them into a windrow for drying. They may be self-propelled with an engine, or drawn by a tractor and po ...
) * Rice huller *
Swather A swather (North America), or windrower (Australia and rest of world), is a farm implement that cuts hay or small grain crops and forms them into a windrow for drying. They may be self-propelled with an engine, or drawn by a tractor and po ...
(more common in the northern United States and Canada) *
Wagon A wagon or waggon is a heavy four-wheeled vehicle pulled by draught animals or on occasion by humans, used for transporting goods, commodities, agricultural materials, supplies and sometimes people. Wagons are immediately distinguished from ...
(and variations of gravity wagons, trailers—e.g. silage trailers, grain hopper trailers and lighter, two-wheeled
cart A cart or dray (Australia and New Zealand) is a vehicle designed for transport, using two wheels and normally pulled by one or a pair of draught animals. A handcart is pulled or pushed by one or more people. It is different from the flatbed tr ...
s) 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

* 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 forage chiefly for feeding livestock, ...
(hand-held) * Winnower (mechanized into the winnowing machine, which has been replaced by the
combine harvester The modern combine harvester, or simply combine, is a versatile machine designed to efficiently harvest a variety of grain crops. The name derives from its combining four separate harvesting operations— reaping, threshing, gathering, and win ...


Hay making

* Bale lifter (also called Bale mover or Bale spike) * Bale wrapper *
Baler A baler or hay baler is a piece of farm machinery used to compress a cut and raked crop (such as hay, cotton, flax straw, salt marsh hay, or silage) into compact bales that are easy to handle, transport, and store. Often, bales are configu ...
* Hay rake *
Hay tedder A tedder (also called hay tedder) is a machine used in haymaking. It is used after cutting and before windrowing, and uses moving forks to aerate or "wuffle" the hay and thus speed drying before baling or rolling. The use of a tedder allows the ha ...
*Loader wagon / self-loading wagon – used in Europe, but not common in USA * Mower-conditioners


Hand hay tool

* Hay fork * Wooden rake


Loading

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Backhoe A backhoe—also called rear actor or back actor—is a type of excavating equipment, or digger, consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm. It is typically mounted on the back of a tractor or front loader, the latt ...
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backhoe loader A backhoe loader, also called a loader backhoe, loader excavator, digger in layman's terms, or colloquially shortened to backhoe within the industry, is a heavy equipment vehicle that consists of a tractor-like unit fitted with a loader-style ...
* Front end loader *
Skid-steer loader A skid loader, skid-steer loader, SSLs or skidsteer is a small, rigid-frame, engine-powered machine with lift arms that can attach to a wide variety of buckets and other labor-saving tools or attachments. Skid-steer loaders are typically four-whee ...
* Telescopic handler *Tractor-mounted
forklift A forklift (also called 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 century by various ...


Milking

* Bulk tank * Milking machine * Milking pipeline


Animal Feeding

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Grinder-mixer A grinder-mixer is a type of agricultural machine used to process livestock feed from grain. A grinder-mixer is a portable mill that combines the mixing and grinding operations. Grinding of ingredients generally improves feed digestibility, accep ...


Other

* Agricultural robots * Allen Scythe * Aquatic weed harvester * Bale splitter * Chillcuring * Conveyor analyzer * Feed grinder * Hedge cutter * Hedge trimmer *
Livestock trailer A trailer is an unpowered vehicle towed by a powered vehicle. It is commonly used for the transport of goods and materials. Sometimes recreational vehicles, travel trailers, or mobile homes with limited living facilities where people can camp ...
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Mixer-wagon A mixer-wagon, or diet feeder, is a specialist agricultural machine used for accurately weighing, mixing and distributing total mixed ration (TMR) for ruminant farm animals, in particular cattle and most commonly, dairy cattle. Trailed mixer ...
(diet feeder) * Mulching machine *
Post driver A post pounder, post driver, post rammer, post knocker or fence driver is a tool used for driving fence posts and similar items into land surfaces. It consists of a heavy steel pipe which is closed at one end and has handles welded onto the side ...
(and hand tool) * Shear Grab (and power link box) * Trailer * Yard scraper


Obsolete farm machinery

Steam Steam is a substance containing water in the gas phase, and sometimes also an aerosol of liquid water droplets, or air. This may occur due to evaporation or due to boiling, where heat is applied until water reaches the enthalpy of vaporizat ...
-powered: *
Portable engine A portable engine is an engine, either a steam engine or an internal combustion engine, that sits in one place while operating (providing power to machinery), but (unlike a stationary engine) is portable and thus can be easily moved from one w ...
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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 c ...
* Threshing machine (replaced by the
combine harvester The modern combine harvester, or simply combine, is a versatile machine designed to efficiently harvest a variety of grain crops. The name derives from its combining four separate harvesting operations— reaping, threshing, gathering, and win ...
) *
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 t ...
(e.g. Agricultural engine, Ploughing engine,
Steam tractor :''This article refers to the steam-powered agricultural tractor; for other types of steam tractor, see: Traction engine'' A steam tractor is a vehicle powered by a steam engine which is used for pulling. In North America, the term ''steam ...
) Other: * Drag harrow * Hog oiler *
Reaper A reaper is a farm implement or person that reaps (cuts and often also gathers) crops at harvest when they are ripe. Usually the crop involved is a cereal grass. The first documented reaping machines were Gallic reapers that were used in Rom ...
(replaced by the
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and Reaper-binder) * Winnowing machine/
Winnowing-fan Winnowing is a process by which chaff is separated from grain. It can also be used to remove pests from stored grain. Winnowing usually follows threshing in grain preparation. In its simplest form, it involves throwing the mixture into the ...


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