List of farm implements - Definition and Overview

Farm equipment is any kind of machinery used on a farm to help with farming. The best-known example of this kind of equipment is the tractor.

List of Farm Implements

Modern Farm Equipment

Traction and Power

• tractor

Tillage

• bed shaper
• cultivator
• chisel plow
• disks
• harrows
• drag
• plough (not used nearly as much as in past)
• rock picker
• rototiller
• spading machine
• subsoiler

Planting

• broadcast seeder (mostly obsolete)
• planter
• plastic mulch layer
• potato planter
• seed drill
• transplanter

Fertilizing & Pest Control

• fertilizer spreader
• manure spreader
• sprayer

Irrigation

• center pivot irrigation

Harvesting / Post-Harvest

• bean harvester
• combine harvester
• conveyor belt
• corn harvester
• cotton picker
• forage harvester (or silage harvester)
• forklift
• potato digger
• swather

Hay Making

• bale mover
• baler
• conditioner
• hay rake
• mower

Other

• auger
• feed grinder
• grain cart

Obsolete Farm Machinery

• binder
• hay rack
• reaper
• (stationary) steam engine
• steam traction engine
• threshing machine

See also

• Agricultural machinery