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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.
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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
- bean harvester
- combine harvester
- conveyor belt
- corn harvester
- cotton picker
- forage harvester (or silage harvester)
- potato digger
- swather
Hay Making
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
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