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.

Tractor "Belarus 3022" from Minsk Tractor Works

Unimog with a flail hedge and verge trimmer implement used in agroforestry

Tractor and power

• Tractor / Two-wheel tractor
• Tracked tractor / Caterpillar tractor

Soil cultivation

• 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
• Cultipacker
• Chisel plow
• Harrow (e.g. Spike harrow, Drag harrow, Disk harrow)
• Plow or plough {various specialized types}
• Stone / Rock / Debris removal implement (e.g. Destoner, Rock windrower / rock rake, Stone picker / picker)
• Subsoiler
• Rotator
• Roller
• Strip till toolbar (and a variation

called Zone till subsoiler)

Planting

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

• Broadcast seeder (alternatively: broadcast spreader, fertilizer spreader, or Air seeder)
• Planter
• Plastic mulch layer
• Potato planter
• Seed drill (e.g. Precision drill)
• Transplanter (e.g. Rice transplanter)

Fertilizing & Pest Control

• Liquid manure/slurry spreader and Liquid manure fertilizer spreader (e.g. slurry tanker or Terragator)
• Dry Manure spreader (e.g. Terragator)
• Sprayer

Trailed sprayer for orchards and vineyards

Irrigation

• Drip irrigation/micro spray heads
• Sprinkler system
• Center pivot irrigation
• Hydroponics

Produce sorter

• Blemish sorter.
• Color sorter
• Density Sorter
• Diameter sorter
• Internal/taste sorter
• Shape sorter
• Weight sorter

Harvesting / post-harvest

• Beet cleaner loader
• Buckrake—for silage making
• Grain cart (with built in Grain Auger)
• Conveyor belt
• Cotton picker
• Farm truck
• Grain dryer
• Harvestor (Bean, Beet, Carrot, Combine—grain—harvester / Stripper, Corn, Forage or silage, Grape, Over-the-row mechanical harvester for harvesting apples, Potato and Potato spinner/digger which is becoming obsolete, Cane 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)

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  Coffee bean Harvester, Mareeba, Queensland, Australia

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  CTM Johnson Tomato Harvester

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

Hand harvesting

• Flail
• Sickle (hand-held)
• Scythe (and a later type the Cradle; both hand-held)
• Winnower (mechanized into the winnowing machine, which has been replaced by the combine harvester

Hay making

Round baler in action

• Bale lifter (also called Bale mover or Bale spike)
• Bale wrapper
• Baler
• Hay rake
• Hay tedder
• Mower-conditioners
• Loader wagon / self-loading wagon – used in Europe, but not common in USA

Hand hay tool

• Hay fork

Loading

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

• Backhoe/backhoe loader
• Front end loader
• Skid-steer loader
• Tractor-mounted forklift

Milking

• Bulk tank
• Milking machine
• Milking pipeline

Animal Feeding

• Grinder-mixer

Other

TOL Tree Trimmer

• Allen Scythe
• Aquatic weed harvester
• Feed grinder
• Bale splitter
• Mixer-wagon (Diet feeder)
• Chillcuring
• Conveyor analyzer
• Hedge cutter
• Hedge trimmer
• Livestock trailer
• Mulching machine
• Post driver (and hand tool)
• Shear Grab (and power link box)
• Trailer
• Yard scraper

Obsolete farm machinery

Steam-powered:

• Stationary steam engine
• Portable engine
• Traction engine (e.g. Agricultural engine, Ploughing engine, Steam tractor)
• Hog oiler
• Reaper (replaced by the Stripper and Reaper-binder)
• Winnowing machine/Winnowing-fan
• Threshing machine (replaced by the combine harvester)
• Drag harrow

External links

Media related to Agricultural machines at Wikimedia Commons