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Farm fertilizer tanks, ready to be hauled to the
field.
Some new tractor designs utilize tracks to
increase pulling power, maintain fuel efficiency, and decrease soil compaction.
Ag Day 2005
Tractors & Trucks
Farming & Construction Equipment
Diversity & Power
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| John Deere | John Deere & Chevrolet | Caterpillar |
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| Case | One-Stack Mack | Ford |
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| Potato planter & John Deere 4955 tractor – Colorado | Unloading potatoes for storage – Colorado |
Soil Sample Site – 2004
Tama Series S31-T19N-R1E, DeWitt County, IL
Soil Surveys provide general and site-specific information essential for land
use planning, management and stewardship.
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| Mobile
hydraulic probes are used to pull core soil samples. |
Core samples are scientifically analyzed to determine site-specific characteristics. |
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| May 2003 Planting CRP Windbreak |
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| Harvesting in Central Illinois |
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| Waterway project | Crib painting |
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| Tractor, potato loader and truck in San Luis Valley, Colorado | Potato harvester that automatically picks up the crop, separates dirt out, sorts, and loads into trucks | Potato tillage equipment in the foreground. Typical metal storage bins in back for harvested barley. Each bin holds approximately 10,000 bushels |
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| John Deere 8820 combine | "Double cropping"--Soybeans being planted in canola residue immediately after the canola crop has been harvested. In this way, the field will produce two crops, canola and soybeans, in one year | In the field, a combine, powered by an open tractor, unloads the soybean harvest into a truck for market delivery |
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| In the 1960s, an open tractor and a "pull" type combine | Illinois grain farmer, 1950s, overseeing grain as it is augured from combine to wagon | Illinois grain farmer, circa 1950, with tractor hitched to a combine for wheat harvest |
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| Freshly harvested potatoes being moved from the field truck to the storage quonset | Potato loading equipment in southern Colorado | Loading auger used to fee seed potatoes into the planter |
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| Harvesting corn in Illinois 2001. | Unloading corn from combine "on the go" into a grain cart while harvesting in Illinois 2001 | Swather, cutting Marovian barley, one of the main ingredients in the light beer for which Colorado is famous |
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| Harvested canola seeds being off loaded from combine into truck prior to delivery to commercial elevator | Combining canola. Plant stalks retain a light green color while pods are golden brown. Seeds will be retained in a combine while plants residue will remain in field. | A view from the combine. Canola plants being swept into the combine as it crosses the field at 3 mph. Combine will break open pods and capture oil bearing seeds. |
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| John Deere 9600 combine. Used for harvesting corn, soybeans and wheat in Central Illinois. | Barley swather. Automatically cuts barley and lays it in a row 4 feet wide. This will be picked up by a combine following behind. | John Deere 4955 tractor with great plains drill used for seeding barley. |
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| Potato planter attached to John Deere 4955 tractor. | Tractor and potato loader. Field truck. John Deere tractor tows loader. Loader picks up potatoes from ground and conveys them into truck. Truck crosses field alongside loader. | By way of potato auger, fresh harvest moves from truck into storage Quonset. |
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| McCormick Deering "Big 6" horse drawn mower | Legs of center pivot irrigation system. | Ear Corn Picker from the mid 20th Century |
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