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.

Tractor and power

• Tractor / Two-wheel tractor

• Tracked tractor / Caterpillar tractor

Soil cultivation

• Cultipacker

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

• Harrow (e.g. Spike harrow, Drag harrow, Disk harrow)

• Land imprinter

• Plow or plough (various specialized types)

• Roller

• Stone / Rock / Debris removal implement (e.g. Destoner, Rock windrower / rock rake, Stone picker / picker)

• Strip till toolbar (and a variation called Zone till subsoiler)

• Subsoiler

• Ridger

• Mole plough

Planting

• Seed drill (box drill, air drill)

• Planter

• Potato planter

• Trowel

• Seed-counting machine

Fertilizers and pesticides dispenser

• Liquid manure/slurry spreader and Liquid manure fertilizer spreader (e.g. slurry tanker or Terragator)

• Dry Manure spreader (e.g. Terragator)

• Sprayer

Irrigation

• Drip irrigation/micro spray heads

• Sprinkler system

• Center pivot irrigation

• Hydroponics

Produce sorter

• Blemish sorter

• Colour sorter

• Density sorter

• Diameter sorter

• Internal/taste sorter

• Shape sorter

• Weight sorter

Harvesting / post-harvest processing

• 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.

• Multi crop Harvester

• Haulm topper

• Mechanical tree shaker and other orchard equipment

• Mower

• Rake

• Reaper-binder (now mostly replaced by the swather)

• Rice huller

• Swather (more common in the northern United States and Canada)

• Wagon (and variations of gravity wagons, trailerss—e.g. silage trailers, grain hopper trailers and lighter, two-wheeled carts)

Hand harvesting

• Flail

• Sickle (hand-held)

• Scythe

• Winnower (mechanized into the winnowing machine, which has been replaced by the combine harvester

Hay making

• Bale lifter (also called Bale mover or Bale spike)

• Bale wrapper

• Baler

• Hay rake

• Hay tedder

• Loader wagon / self-loading wagon – used in Europe, but not common in USA

• Mower-conditioners

Hand hay tool

• Hay fork

• Wooden rake

Loading

• Backhoe/backhoe loader

• Front end loader

• Skid-steer loader

• Telescopic handler

• Tractor-mounted forklift

Milking

• Bulk tank

• Milking machine

• Milking pipeline

Animal Feeding

• Grinder-mixer

Other

• Agricultural robots

• Allen Scythe

• Aquatic weed harvester

• Bale splitter

• Chillcuring

• Conveyor analyzer

• Feed grinder

• Hedge cutter

• Hedge trimmer

• Livestock trailer

• Motor Bikes (used on large cattle stations and ranches)

• Mixer-wagon (diet feeder)

• Mulching machine

• Post driver (and hand tool)

• Quad Bikes

• Shear Grab (and power link box)

• Trailer

• Yard scraper

Obsolete farm machinery

Steam-powered:

• Portable engine

• Stationary steam engine

• Threshing machine (replaced by the combine harvester)

• Traction engine (e.g. Agricultural engine, Ploughing engine, Steam tractor)

Other:

• Drag harrow

• Hog oiler

• Reaper (replaced by the Stripper and Reaper-binder)

• Winnowing machine/Winnowing-fan

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