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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.
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]
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]
A 2013-2014 report acknowledged that "China's agricultural machinery industry has achieved rapid development, the gross output value of agricultural machinery exceeded RMB 300 billion, total power of agricultural machinery surpassed 1 billion kilowatts, and the integrated mechanization level of agricultural crops exceeded 50%, demonstrating ...
The Ford N-series tractor helped revolutionize modern mechanized agriculture with its Ferguson three point hitch. A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or construction.
Taylor Manufacturing Co., operational in Chambersburg in the late 1800s, has patents on the portable steam engine and an ice machine/ice cream maker. Chambersburg's Taylor Manufacturing Co. was ...
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.