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Farm equipment

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

List of Farm Implements

Modern Farm Equipment

Traction and Power

Tillage

  • bed shaper
  • 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

Fertilizing & Pest Control

  • fertilizer spreader
  • Terragator
  • manure spreader
  • sprayer

Irrigation

Harvesting / Post-Harvest

Hay Making

Other

Obsolete Farm Machinery

See also



07-14-2008 23:18:10
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