agricultural machinery

A farmer's bright red tractor participates in a variety of activities throughout the year, including plowing, sowing, and harvesting the fields, helping cars get unstuck from a muddy road, and resting in the barn.

"Offers [tips and suggestions] to keep your small farm's equipment in good working order. Long-time farmers Steve and Ann Larkin Hansen cover everything from tractors and mowers to trimmers, tillers, ATVs, plows, discs, drills, planters, cultivators, mechanical rakes, and balers, showing you how to care for your equipment to prevent problems and how to diagnose and fix the things that do go wrong."--Provided by publisher.

For thousands of years, societies have relied on plants and animals for food and other items, making agriculture as vital to their survival as it is to ours. The cultivation of various crops and livestock over time and throughout the world are examined, revealing the history behind and importance of much of the food we eat today.

Simple text and photographs look at different machines on a farm.

A photo-illustrated guide to welding processes for the maintenance and repair of equipment on the farm and in the workshop.

Photographs and text provide information about farm machinery, looking at how farm work was done in the past, and explaining the purpose of tractors, and machines used for tilling, seeding, and harvesting.

Explore simple machines like a lever and wedge to complex hydraulic driven, 4 wheel drive, self-propelled choppers.

Informative text and illustrations describe how the tractor and other farm machines work and what they do.

A republication of John Deere's text, originally published in the early 1900s, which explains the operation, care, and repair of farm implements, discussing the machines and methods of preparing the seed beds, planting, cultivating, harvesting, and other tasks.

Describes the parts of combines and how they work in harvesting different kinds of crops.