Machines and tools that prepare the soil and gather the crop, such as ploughs, cultivators, balers and cotton pickers. A member belongs here when the cited article describes it as a tillage or harvesting machine. The group is one of the groupings under this field in the Technology Atlas, and each member keeps its own entry with its own cited sources and its own place in the field. Its members appear in the Browse By view for the field, so a reader can move from this group to each member entry and to the sources cited there.
Tillage and Harvest Machines
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Baler (Wikipedia)
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A baler, or hay baler, is a piece of farm machinery used to compress a cut and raked crop (such as hay, cotton, flax straw, salt marsh hay, or silage) into compact bales that are easy to handle, transport, and store.
Cotton picker (Wikipedia)
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A cotton picker is either a machine that harvests cotton, or a person who picks ripe cotton fibre from the plants.
Cultivator (Wikipedia)
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A cultivator is a piece of agricultural equipment used for secondary tillage.
Petty Plough (Wikipedia)
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The Petty Plough was a steerable plough developed by brothers Frank and Herbert Petty of Doncaster, Victoria, Australia in the early 1930s.
Plough (Wikipedia)
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A plough or plow (US) (both pronounced ) is a farm tool for loosening or turning soil before sowing seed or planting.
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