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There are many types of such equipment, from hand tools and power tools to tractors and the farm implements that they tow or operate. Machinery is used in both organic and nonorganic farming. Especially since the advent of mechanised agriculture , agricultural machinery is an indispensable part of how the world is fed.
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 2014, the AEM stated that "U.S. domestic sales of agricultural machinery and equipment rose from about $20 billion in 1999 to $38 billion in 2012. Since 1998 and through 2012, U.S. exports of agricultural equipment have grown relatively quickly, more than doubling from about $4 billion to $8.7 billion. [26]
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Hesston 5670 round baler, in 2010. AGCO was established on June 20, 1990, when Robert J. Ratliff, John M. Shumejda, Edward R. Swingle, and James M. Seaver, who were executives at Deutz-Allis, bought out Deutz-Allis North American operations from the parent corporation Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG (KHD), a German company which owned the Deutz-Fahr brand of agriculture equipment.
Millat Tractors (Urdu: ملت ٹریکٹرز) is a Pakistani agricultural machinery manufacturer based in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. [2] [3] Founded in 1964, it is the manufacturer of Massey Ferguson tractors in Pakistan with a production capacity of 40,000.
Al-Ghazi Tractors Ltd (AGTL) (Urdu: ال غازی ٹریکٹر) is a Pakistani agricultural machinery assembler headquartered in Karachi with a tractor manufacturing plant located in Dera Ghazi Khan. [2] It is a subsidiary of CNH Industrial and Al-Futtaim Group. [3]
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]