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.

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
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

A Frost & Wood reaper- binder being used in the Rainy River District in the 1900s.

Hand harvesting

Winnowing machine from 1839

Hay making

Round baler in action

Hand hay tool

Loading

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

Milking

Animal Feeding

Other

TOL Tree Trimmer
A mulching machine

Obsolete farm machinery

A Geiser threshing machine

Steam-powered:

Other:

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