List of agricultural machinery

'''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.

[[File:Agricultural machinery.jpg|thumb|From left to right: John Deere 7800 tractor with Houle slurry trailer, Case IH combine harvester, New Holland FX 25 forage harvester with corn head.|292x292px]] [[File:2010-04-07 Unimog at Arthur Ibbetts machinery dealership.jpg|thumb|Unimog with a flail hedge and verge trimmer implement used in agroforestry]]

==Tractor and power== thumb|''Farm mechanization in Ontario and Quebec''; illustrating a tractor {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Tractor / Two-wheel tractor *Tracked tractor / Caterpillar tractor {{div col end}}

==Soil cultivation== [[File:7264 Canterbury Agricultural College farm.jpg|thumb|Harrow in use in 1948 at Canterbury Agricultural College farm]] thumb|Historic huge specialist "plough" for maintaining drainage ditches in East Germany {{div col|colwidth=30em}}

*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 *Mole plough {{div col end}}

==Planting== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} {{div col end}} * Seed drill (box drill, air drill) * Planter * Potato planter * Trowel * Seed-counting machine

==Fertilizers and pesticides dispenser== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Liquid manure/slurry spreader and Liquid manure fertilizer spreader (e.g. slurry tanker or Terragator) *Dry Manure spreader (e.g. Terragator) *Sprayer

==Irrigation== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Drip irrigation/micro spray heads *Sprinkler system *Center pivot irrigation *Hydroponics {{div col end}}

==Produce sorter== thumb|A belt sorter for peas {{div col|colwidth=}} * Blemish sorter * Colour sorter * Density sorter * Diameter sorter * Internal/taste sorter * Shape sorter * Weight sorter {{div col end}}

==Harvesting / post-harvest processing== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *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. [[File:Fall harvest in Devlin, Ontario (I0002351).tiff|thumb|A Frost & Wood reaper- binder being used in the Rainy River District in the 1900s.]] * 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) {{div col end}} <gallery mode="packed" align="center"> File:Swather.jpg|A swather File:Coffee Harvester Mareeba.JPG|Coffee bean Harvester, Mareeba, Queensland, Australia File:CTM Johnson Tomato Harvester.JPG|CTM Johnson Tomato Harvester File:Module Express.JPG|Case IH Module Express 625 picks cotton and simultaneously builds cotton modules. </gallery>

===Hand harvesting=== thumb|Winnowing machine from 1839 *Flail *Sickle (hand-held) *Scythe *Winnower (mechanized into the winnowing machine, which has been replaced by the combine harvester

==Hay making== thumb|Round baler in action

{{see also|hay}} {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *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 {{div col end}}

===Hand hay tool=== *Hay fork *Wooden rake

==Loading== [[File:JCB 3C backhoe.jpg|thumb|A "backhoe loader"<br />A restored JCB 3C MkII, showing the conventional arrangement of front loader and backhoe]] {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Backhoe/backhoe loader *Front end loader *Skid-steer loader *Telescopic handler *Tractor-mounted forklift {{div col end}}

==Milking== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Bulk tank *Milking machine *Milking pipeline {{div col end}}

==Animal Feeding== *Grinder-mixer

==Other== thumb|TOL Tree Trimmer thumb|A mulching machine {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *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 {{div col end}}

==Obsolete farm machinery== thumb|A Geiser threshing machine Steam-powered: {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Portable engine *Stationary steam engine *Threshing machine (replaced by the combine harvester) *Traction engine (e.g. Agricultural engine, Ploughing engine, Steam tractor) {{div col end}} Other: {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Drag harrow *Hog oiler *Reaper (replaced by the Stripper and Reaper-binder) *Winnowing machine/Winnowing-fan {{div col end}}

== External links == {{Commons category-inline|Agricultural machines}}

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