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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.
In total, the production of agricultural machinery worldwide in 2013 generated about 95 billion euros, [23] based on a report Agricultural Machinery November 2013 : Market Perspectives 2014 [24] by the VDMA, a German engineering association. Another recent statistic mentioned, that the agricultural machinery industry in 2010 generated worldwide ...
Agricultural machinery relates to the mechanical structures and devices used in farming or other agriculture. There are many types of such equipment , from hand tools and power tools to tractors and the farm implements that they tow or operate.
The modern combine harvester, also called a combine, is a machine designed to harvest a variety of cultivated seeds. Combine harvesters are one of the most economically important labour-saving inventions, significantly reducing the fraction of the population engaged in agriculture. [1]
New Holland is a global full-line agricultural machinery manufacturer founded in New Holland, Pennsylvania, and now based in Turin, Italy.New Holland's products include tractors, combine harvesters, balers, forage harvesters, self-propelled sprayers, haying tools, seeding equipment, hobby tractors, utility vehicles and implements, and grape harvesters.
A cotton picker at work. The first successful models were introduced in the mid-1940s and each could do the work of 50 hand pickers. Mechanised agriculture or agricultural mechanization is the use of machinery and equipment, ranging from simple and basic hand tools to more sophisticated, motorized equipment and machinery, to perform agricultural operations. [1]
Grady, Lee. "McCormick's Reaper at 100," Wisconsin Magazine of History (2001) 84#3 pp.10-20. Looks at the marketing of agricultural equipment 1831 to 1931. Hirsch, Arthur. “Efforts of the Grange in the Middle West to Control the Price of Farm Machinery, 1870–1880.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 15 (1929): 473–96. Hounshell, David A.
Pages in category "Agricultural machinery" The following 138 pages are in this category, out of 138 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...