A transplanter is an

agricultural machine Agricultural machinery relates to the mechanical structures and devices used in farming or other agriculture. There are many types of such equipment, from hand tools and power tools to tractors and the countless kinds of farm implements that they ...

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 Field may refer to: Expanses of open ground * Field (agriculture), an area of land used for agricultural purposes * Airfield, an aerodrome that lacks the infrastructure of an airport * Battlefield * Lawn, an area of mowed grass * Meadow, a grass ...

. 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 or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or construction. Most common ...

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, fer ...

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 Limited is an American agricultural machinery manufacturer. The company was established in 1953 through the merger of farm equipment makers Massey-Harris of Canada and the Ferguson Company of the United Kingdom. It was based in T ...

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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