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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.
The Open Source Agriculture movement counts different initiatives and organizations such as Farm Labs which is a network in Europe, [12] l'Atelier Paysan which is a cooperative to teach farmers in France how to build and repair their tools, [13] [14] and Ekylibre which is an open-source company to provide farmers in France with open source ...
Titan Machinery was founded in 1980 when Meyer and Larson bought out the majority shareholders of Meyer-Jones Farm Store. Darrell Larson left Titan at the end of the 1980s. In the early 1990s, the company began its expansion with acquisitions in La Moure, North Dakota, and Lidgerwood, North Dakota.
World Ag Expo is the largest annual outdoor agricultural exposition with over 1,200 exhibitors and an attendance of more than 100,000 each year. It is held at the International Agri-Center in Tulare, California, in the United States, starting on the second Tuesday of February.
California’s wealthiest farming family is proposing an expansion of industrial warehousing in Kern County that would fundamentally reshape the economy in the southern San Joaquin Valley.
They soon progressed to steam-powered farm machinery and, later, designs for crawler-type tractors. More than 100 patents were issued for various crawler designs. Holt began manufacturing horse-drawn combine harvesters in the 1890s and converted to steam-power types around the early 20th century.
The agricultural machinery industry produces agricultural machinery, machinery used in the operation of agricultural areas and farms. Main types are: [13] Tractors and power. Machinery for tillage or soil cultivation. Machinery for planting, seeding, fertilizing, pest control, irrigation.
California farms produce 90% of all U.S.-grown avocados, with the great majority being of the Hass variety. [14] In 2021 [15] the state harvest was 135,500 short tons (122,900 t) on 46,700 acres (18,900 ha) for a yield of 2.9 short tons per acre (6.5 t/ha), and at $2,430 per short ton ($2,679/t) that brought $327,369,000.