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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

• Tractor / Two-wheel tractor
• Tracked tractor / Caterpillar tractor

Soil cultivation

• 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

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

• 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)

• A swather
• Coffee bean Harvester, Mareeba, Queensland, Australia
• CTM Johnson Tomato Harvester
• Case IH Module Express 625 picks cotton and simultaneously builds cotton modules.

Hand harvesting

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• Winnower (mechanized into the winnowing machine, which has been replaced by the combine harvester

Hay making

• 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

• 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

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

External links

Media related to Agricultural machines at Wikimedia Commons

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