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List of Farm Implements

Modern Farm Equipment

Traction and Power

• A modern farm tractor. ...tractor

Tillage

• bed shaper
• cultivator
• chisel plow
• Alternative meanings: Harrow, London, a place in the London Borough of Harrow; Harrow School, a famous public school in the United Kingdom; The Harrow, a fantasy and horror magazine. ...disk harrow
• spike harrow or drag
• For the constellation known as The Plough see Ursa Major. ...plough (not used nearly as much as in past)
• rototiller
• spading machine
• subsoiler

Planting

• broadcast seeder (mostly obsolete)
• planter
• plastic mulch layer
• potato planter
• The Seed drill was invented by Jethro Tull in 1701: It allowed farmers to sow seeds in well-spaced rows at specific depths. ...seed drill
• transplanter

Fertilizing & Pest Control

• fertilizer spreader
• Terragator
• manure spreader
• sprayer

Irrigation

• Irrigating cotton fields Irrigation in the Heart of the Sahara Irrigation (in agriculture) is the replacement or supplementation of rainfall with water from another source in order to grow crops. ...center pivot irrigation

Harvesting / Post_Harvest

• bean harvester
• The combine harvester, or simply combine, is a machine that harvests, threshes, and cleans grain plants. ...combine harvester
• A conveyor belt or belt conveyor consists of two end pulleys, with a continuous loop of material that rotates about them. ...conveyor belt
• corn harvester
• A cotton picker is a tractor machine that removes cotton from its bush at up to four rows at a time. ...cotton picker
• A forage harvester (also known as a silage harvester) is a farm implement that creates silage. ...forage harvester (or silage harvester)
• potato digger
• A swather is a farm implement that cuts hay or small grain crops and forms them into a windrow. ...swather

Hay Making

• bale mover
• A Round Baler A baler is a piece of farm machinery that is used to compress a cut, raked, crop (such as hay or straw) into bales and bind the bales with twine. ...baler
• conditioner
• hay rake
• A mower is a device for cutting crops or plants that grow on the ground. ...mower

Other

• An auger is a device for moving material or liquid by means of a rotating helical flighting. ...grain auger
• feed grinder
• grain cart
• rock picker

Obsolete Farm Machinery

• The reaper-binder or binder was a farm implement that improved upon the reaper. ...binder
• hay rack
• The reaper was a horse drawn farm implement invented by Cyrus McCormick in 1831 to cut small grain crops. ...reaper
• (stationary) steam engine
• steam A traction engine is a wheeled steam engine used to move heavy loads or to provide power at chosen location. ...traction engine
• The thrashing machine, or, in modern spelling, threshing machine, was a machine invented by Scottish mechanical engineer Andrew Meikle for use in agriculture. ...threshing machine

See also

• Agricultural machinery is one of the most revolutionary and impactful applications of modern technology. ...Agricultural machinery