5 Most Common Farm Equipment For a Farm

Used in the production of multiple food products like vegetable, grains and fruits through crops the farm equipment play a major role in our modern farming. Use of technology in farming and advanced farming techniques have given farmers the ability to increase crop production by reducing time and cost of manual labour. We will discuss here some most popular or commonly used farm equipment used for the tilling, seeding, fertilization, irrigation, planting, pest control and harvesting of crops. From the ancient use of plough and livestock to the modern diesel-powered tractor, we have come a long way in agriculture sector and below we have mentioned a few of the machines used in agriculture nowadays:

 

1.     Cultivator – A Cultivator is used to break up and mix the upper layer of the soil. The purpose of this action is to aerate the soil before the seeds are planted.  It improves the nutrients in the soil to help the crop grow. It is also used after seeds are planted to kill weeds which interrupt the crop growth. Cultivators can be a small single self-propelled unit or a tractor implement pulled behind a tractor for large crop farming areas.

2.       MB Plough -MB plough or mould-board plough, is one of the primary tillage equipment used to prepare the soil for sowing by breaking up the soil and burring weeds or competing plants. With the increasing mechanization, there are many farm equipment manufacturing companies that offer different types of Plough with various functionalities including MB plough or Mould board plough, disc plough etc. 

3.      Seeders and Planters – Modern seeders and planters such as disc seed drills let a farmer plant seeds by towing the seed drills in a box with tractors and spread over a larger area in a minimum amount of time. The seeds drills or planters align seeds in rows which vary in width and release seed in a very precise method. 

4.        Field Sprayer – To protect crops from insects and other pests, fertilizer sprayers like a boom sprayer works for multipurpose plant protection in a large field to disperse herbicides and pesticides over large crop beds. Commonly these are pulled by the tractor.

     5.        Harvester – A harvester one of the most popular farm machinery used to gather grains from crops very conveniently. This is a large motorized vehicle with an attachment on the front that can vary depending on the crop type. Being versatile machinery this equipment is highly valuable. A combine harvester can do three jobs at one time, it reaps, threshes, and winnows at the same time. There are also special multi-crop harvester machines used for beans, carrots, potatoes, and corn. Additionally, once the crops are gathered it leaves behind the chaff which can be gathered by balers like round balers or square balers to feed livestock.