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.

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

Tractor and power

Farm mechanization in Ontario and Quebec; illustrating a tractor

Soil cultivation

Harrow in use in 1948 at Canterbury Agricultural College farm
Historic huge specialist "plough" for maintaining drainage ditches in East Germany
  • 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)
  • Ridger

Planting

Fertilizers and pesticides dispenser

Irrigation

Produce sorter

A belt sorter for peas
  • Blemish sorter.
  • Colour sorter
  • Density Sorter
  • Diameter sorter
  • Internal/taste sorter
  • Shape sorter
  • Weight sorter

Harvesting / post-harvest processing

  • 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.
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)

Hand harvesting

Winnowing machine from 1839

Hay making

Round baler in action
  • 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

Hand hay tool

Loading

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

Milking

Animal Feeding

  • Grinder-mixer

Other

TOL Tree Trimmer
A mulching machine

Obsolete farm machinery

A Geiser threshing machine

Steam-powered:

Other:

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