Agricultural Equipment Ensures Food on Your Dining Table
Imagine how long it took farmers of ancient times to cultivate their lands? It will take days to prepare the soil, plant the seeds, and wait months for harvesting. The last one may still be the same but the first two now a days come a lot easier with agricultural equipment.
Our need for food may have tickled the brains of those who pioneered the inventions to make farming a lot easier. In the last few centuries a lot of advancements have been made to improve agriculture.
Ploughing the History of Farming
Our forefathers may have tilled the lands using their bare hands and eventually developed tools like knives, scythes, and ploughs. Every family member devoted their time to farming to make most of the soil.
The industrial revolution paved the way for machines that can make the job easier. Simple works like harvesting or threshing are aided by machines which can accomplish the workload in minutes compared to hours if done by hands.
Animals like horses which helped farmers with the heavy work in their fields were replaced by machines and portable engines. Agricultural equipment evolved using gasoline and diesel as their fuel. This made them more efficient and more powerful than their predecessors.
The developments of technologies led to combine or portable machines that help the farmer do harvesting with ease by cutting, threshing, and separating the produce while mowing across the field.
Even though combines are very portable, tractors still has a big chunk of work in the modern day farms. They are used in combination with implements that they pull to plough the ground, plant crops, or perform other functions. Here are some of the things that they can do:
• Tillage Implements- this tool prepares the soil for planting. The tillage turns the soil to loosen it and get rid of unwanted weeds. Before, plows are the in thing but today offset disks and chisels are used by farmers.
• Seeder- this gets the seed onto the soil. There are planters which puts seeds 2 or 3 feet apart. There are also drills that can plant the seeds closer to each other.
• Transplanters- these help farmers transfer seedlings in long rows across the field. They can also come equipped with plastic mulch layers which protect the plants from extreme weather
Other agricultural equipment can be used to maintain the farm after planting. These can take out the weeds in between rows, spread pesticides, or package grass for easy storage or disposal.
Machines also help farmers for irrigation of their crops and proper delivery of fertilizers or pest controls. The advent of more advanced agricultural equipment help farmers to make sure that there will be food in the market and our dining tables. GP
Posted in Agricultural Equipment on September 18, 2008 - 7:34 am by admin |
