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List of Farm Implements

Traction and Power

• tractor

• cultivator
• chisel plow
• disk harrow
• spike harrow or drag
• plough (not used nearly as much as in past)
• rototiller
• spading machine
• subsoiler

Cultivator is a farm implement for stirring and pulverizing the soil, either before planting or to remove weeds and to aerate and loosen the soil after the crop has begun to grow. ... The Chisel Plow is common tool to get deep tillage with limited soil disruption. ... This article is about the agricultural tool. ... The spike harrow or drag is a tillage implement for agriculture. ... It has been suggested that Mouldboard Plough be merged into this article or section. ... A Rotary tiller, normally known by the rototiller trademark, is a cultivator that works the soil with rotating blades. ...

Planting

• broadcast seeder (mostly obsolete)
• planter
• plastic mulch layer
• potato planter
• seed drill
• transplanter
  • rice transplanter

The seed drill was invented by Jethro Tull in 1701: It allowed farmers to sow seeds in well-spaced rows at specific depths. ... A rice transplanter is a specialized transplanter fitted to transplant rice seedlings onto puddle field. ...

Fertilizing & Pest Control

• fertilizer spreader
• Terragator
• manure spreader
• sprayer

Irrigation

• center pivot irrigation

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Harvesting / Post-Harvest

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

Using a sickle A sickle is a curved, hand-held agricultural tool typically used for harvesting grain crops before the advent of modern harvesting machinery. ... A postage stamp of a combine honors Russian agriculture. ... Insert non-formatted text here Point of contact between a power transmission belt and its pulley. ... The mechanical cotton picker is a machine that automates cotton harvesting. ... A self propelled John Deere 5730 Forage Harvester. ... A swather is a farm implement that cuts hay or small grain crops and forms them into a windrow. ...

Hay Making

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

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. ... A hay rake is an agricultural rake designed to put cut hay into rows so the baler can come and pick it up later. ... A mower is a device for cutting crops or plants that grow on the ground. ...

Loading

• Backhoe *Front End Loader
• Skid-Steer Loader

A Bobcat skid-steer loader moving a bale of hay on a farm

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Other

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

An auger is a device for moving material or liquid by means of a rotating helical flighting. ...

Obsolete Farm Machinery

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

The reaper-binder or binder was a farm implement that improved upon the reaper. ... A hog oiler was a mechanical device employed on farms to be used by hogs to provide relief from insects and offer skin protection. ... The reaper was a horse-drawn farm implement invented in 1831 and patented by Cyrus McCormick in 1834 to cut small grain crops. ... A steam engine is an external combustion heat engine that makes use of the thermal energy that exists in steam, converting it to mechanical work. ... It has been suggested that steam tractor be merged into this article or section. ... The thrashing machine, or, in modern spelling, threshing machine, was a machine invented by Scottish mechanical engineer Andrew Meikle for use in agriculture. ...

See also

• Agricultural machinery