With increasing farm mechanization the operating costs of farm machinery on a farm acquires approximately twenty five percent of the total cost. Thus choosing the appropriate agricultural equipment becomes a crucial key factor to run a farm successfully. A profitable farm business cannot function without the use of suitable machinery.
Different types of agricultural machinery from different brand are currently available in the market to choose from. These machinery differ in quality, price and functionality. Out of such a large variety of options, it can be crucial sometimes to decide which farm equipment a farm should by for his small farm. Here is a list of the farm equipment that a farmer can use to decide which equipment would he need to maintain his farm more efficiently.
Tractor
Majorly used for pulling heavy farm implements a tractor is undoubtedly the most versatile piece of equipment. Available in many different sizes these are highly expensive because of its powerful engines. So it is necessary to choose the right one as per your need.
Mowers
You may need a push-behind mower, a zero-turn mower, a riding mower, a belly-mounted mower or a pull-behind mower to maintain your lawn or farm. A forage mower can be used for cutting of fodder crops like millet, sorghum, maize, oats, mustard.
Sprayers
Sprayers are used to apply compost tea, pesticides and herbicides. Boom sprayer offered by Fieldking is used connected to the three point linkage of tractor and getting drive from P.T.O for spraying chemicals to the crops.
Landscape Rake
Landscape Rakes are used to perform final preparation of soil surface and reshaping it to aggregate profile. This farm equipment is perfectly suitable to be used by landscapers, contractors, and rental yards for housing and road construction projects, golf courses, terracing sites, run-off control projects.
Seed Drills
Seed drills are also used as an attachment to the tractor to insert seeds into the ground directly minimizing the soil disturbance. No-till seed drills are designed to cut through existing crop residue in order to create a path for planting new seeds.
Cultivator
Tractor cultivators are used preparing a perfect seed bed and for weed control after the initial ploughing is done and before planting the seeds.
Ploughs
Different types of plough are used in farming operations to till the soil, and one might probably need a combination of few to plough the soil at your farm. Some of the most common ploughs are mouldboard ploughs, disc plough, rotary plough or rotavator, harrow plough etc, depending on the type of crop production and the condition of your land.
Combine Harvester
Majorly used by grain farmers combine harvester machine harvests the crops most efficiently and gets grain out of crops in easiest ways.
