Research 5 specific machines used in agriculture technology. List the machines and explain what each machine is used for in Agriculture Technology.
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Agricultural machinery is machinery used in farming or other agriculture. There are many types of such equipment, from hand tools and power tools to tractors and the countless kinds of farm implements that they tow or operate. Diverse arrays of equipment are 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.
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Explanation:
Tractor and power
Tractor / Two-wheel tractor
Tracked tractor / Caterpillar tractor
Soil cultivation
Harrow in use in 1948 at Canterbury Agricultural College farm
Cultivator (of two main variations)
Dragged teeth (also called shanks) that pierce the soil.
Rotary motion of disks or teeth. Examples are: Power tiller / Rotary tiller / Rototiller / Bedtiller / Mulch tiller / Rotavator
Cultipacker
Chisel plow
Harrow (e.g. Spike harrow, Drag harrow, Disk harrow)
Plow or plough {various specialized types}
Stone / Rock / Debris removal implement (e.g. Destoner, Rock windrower / rock rake, Stone picker / picker)
Subsoiler
Rotator
Roller
Strip till toolbar (and a variation
called Zone till subsoiler)
Planting
A plough in action in South Africa. Notice the soil being turned over.
Trowel (khurpi)
Seed drill (Box Drill, Air Drill)
Planter
Adding fertilizers, pesticides, and organic manure
Liquid manure/slurry spreader and Liquid manure fertilizer spreader (e.g. slurry tanker or Terragator)
Dry Manure spreader (e.g. Terragator)
Sprayer
Trailed sprayer for orchards and vineyards
Irrigation
Drip irrigation/micro spray heads
Sprinkler system
Center pivot irrigation
Hydroponics
Produce sorter
Blemish sorter.
Color sorter
Density Sorter
Diameter sorter
Internal/taste sorter
Shape sorter
Weight sorter
Harvesting / post-harvest
Buckrake—for silage making
Grain cart (with built in Grain Auger)
Conveyor belt
Cotton picker
Farm truck
Grain dryer
Harvestor / harvester built for harvesting specific crops. (e.g. Bean harvester, Beet harvester, Carrot harvester, Combine (grain) harvester / Stripper, Header, Corn harvester, Forage or silage harvester, Grape Harvester, Over-the-row mechanical harvester for harvesting apples, Potato harvester, Potato spinner/digger which is becoming obsolete, and Sugarcane harvester. Variations of harvesters are stripper cleaners and stripper loaders.