List of agricultural machinery

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A modern John Deere 8110 Farm Tractor plowing a field using a chisel plow.

Agricultural machinery is any kind of machinery used on a farm to help with farming. The best-known example of this kind is the tractor.

[edit] Traction and power

• Tractor
• Crawler tractor / Caterpillar tractor

[edit] Soil cultivation

• Cultivator
• Cultipacker
• Chisel plow
• Harrow
  • Spike harrow
  • Drag harrow
  • Disk harrow
• Plough
• Power tiller / Rotary tiller / Rototiller
• Spading machine
• Subsoiler
• Walking tractor
• Stone Picker, also known as a Rock Picker

[edit] Planting

A plough in action in South Africa. Notice the soil being turned over.

• Broadcast seeder (alternately: broadcast spreader or fertilizer spreader)
• Planter (farm implement)
• Plastic mulch layer
• Potato planter
• Seed drill
• Air seeder
• Precision drill
• Transplanter
  • Rice transplanter

[edit] Fertilizing & Pest Control

• Fertilizer spreader, see broadcast seeder
• Terragator
• Manure spreader
• Sprayer

[edit] Irrigation

• Center pivot irrigation

[edit] Harvesting / post-harvest

Case IH Module Express 625 picks cotton and simultaneously builds cotton modules.

• beet harvester
• Bean harvester
• Cane Harvester
• Chaser Bin
• Combine harvester
• Conveyor belt
• Corn harvester
• Cotton picker
• Fanning mill
• Forage harvester (or silage harvester)
• Gleaner
• Gravity wagon
• Haulout Transporter
• Huller
• Over-the-row mechanical harvester for harvesting apples
• Potato digger
• Potato harvester
• Sickle
• Swather

[edit] Hay making

Round baler in action

• Bale mover
• Baler and Big Baler
• Conditioner
• Hay rake
• Hay tedder
• Mower
• Self-loading wagon - used in Europe, but not common in USA

[edit] Loading

• Backhoe
• Front end loader
• Skid-steer loader

[edit] Other

A "backhoe loader"
A restored JCB 3C MkII, showing the conventional arrangement of front loader and backhoe

A skid loader with its bucket replaced by backhoe attachment

• Allen Scythe
• Grain auger
• Feed grinder
• Grain cart
• Rock picker
• Conveyor Analyzer

[edit] Obsolete farm machinery

Steam-powered:

• Stationary steam engine
• Portable engine
• Traction engine
  • Agricultural engine
  • Ploughing engine
  • Steam tractor
• Binder
• Hog oiler
• Reaper
• Threshing machine
• Drag harrow

[edit] See also

• Roll over protection structure