Types and Uses of agricultural machinery
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Modern-day farming requires the use of a wide range of agricultural machinery for different activities. If you belong to the farming industry, you might already know how important it is to keep up with all the newest equipment and technologies related to farming and agriculture.
To give you a good idea, the following are the most popular types of agricultural machinery used these days:
Combines
Combines are multipurpose machines with the ability to harvest a wide variety of grain crops efficiently and quickly. Their name stems from the fact that they combine four different processes and methods of harvesting into one process. These are reaping, collecting, winnowing, and threshing.
Barley, canola, corn (maize), flax (linseed), oats, rice, soybeans, sunflowers, and wheat are some of the crops harvested using a combine. These combines feature detachable headers tailored to certain crops.
Also called a grain platform, the standard header comes with a reciprocating knife cutter bar as well as a revolving reel featuring metal teeth that lets the cut crop drop into the auger once it is cut.
Cultipacker
Cultipackers are ridged rollers that squash clumps of dirt, get rid of air pockets, and compact tiny stones to produce a solid and smooth seedbed. These rollers gently reinforce the soil around seeds after they are broadcasted to provide shallow placement of seeds and strong contact between seed and soil.
Planters
Planters are a type of agricultural machinery that sows seeds in rows across fields and are often towed at the back of a tractor. A three-point hitch or drawbar attaches it to the tractor. A planter places the seeds in rows in a particular manner. These are used for handling bigger seeds while smaller seeds are handled using seeders, grain drills, and seed drills.
Planters are two major types that you can find in the market right now, and these are electrically or hydraulically-driven and mechanically-driven planters. A small suspended tire in a mechanically driven system is steered by a different tire connected to the ground tire.
A hydraulic driven was made to make up for the ground-driven system’s shortcomings. These hydraulic-driven systems allow the operator to alter the population even while on the move. At the same time, the computer controller is allowed to follow the pre-programmed prescription for a particular field.
Sprayers
Sprayers are a agricultural machinery used for administering water, fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides to crops. They come in various sizes, such as self-propelled sprayers that look like tractors, trailed sprayers connected to a tractor, and man-portable units or backpacks that feature spray guns.
You can choose from a wide variety of agricultural sprayers in the market meant for a plethora of uses such as spot applications, crop production, farms, gardens, grazing land, grasslands, weed management, cattle needs, crop trees, vineyards, and fruit.
Thresher
Threshers or threshing machines are a agricultural machinery that remove seeds from husks of grain and stalks. To do this, the equipment beats the plant to make the seeds fall out. The process of threshing was performed manually in the past with flails before the development of these machines.
