Farm equipment

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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 1 List of Farm Implements 1.1 Modern Farm Equipment 1.1.1 Traction and Power 1.1.2 Tillage 1.1.3 Planting 1.1.4 Fertilizing & Pest Control 1.1.5 Irrigation 1.1.6 Harvesting / Post-Harvest 1.1.7 Hay Making 1.1.8 Other 1.2 Obsolete Farm Machinery 2 See also

List of Farm Implements

Modern Farm Equipment

Traction and Power

• tractor

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

• center pivot irrigation

Harvesting / Post-Harvest

• bean harvester
• combine harvester
• conveyor belt
• corn harvester
• cotton picker
• forage harvester (or silage harvester)
• potato digger
• swather

Hay Making

• bale mover
• baler
• conditioner
• hay rake
• mower

Other

• grain auger
• feed grinder
• grain cart
• rock picker

Obsolete Farm Machinery

• binder
• hay rack
• reaper
• (stationary) steam engine
• steam traction engine
• threshing machine

See also

• Agricultural machinery