Farm Equipment Dealerships Key Terms

Develop a good knowledge of farm equipment dealerships key terms

By Denise Brown

To operate a farm equipment dealership, you must first have a good working knowledge of farm equipment dealerships key terms. Specifically, this includes having a good working vocabulary of all the major types of farm equipment that you may choose to sell at your dealership. The following key terms provide a good definition and example of each of the main farm equipment types you may choose to sell.

Tractors

Tractors are the workhorses of modern farms, and they are the mainstay of any farm equipment dealership.
Try: John Deere offers a full line of tractors, and its website provides good illustration of the various types.

Tillage equipment

Tillage equipment involves the machinery necessary to plant crops. This includes plows, disks, cultivators, planters and other implements. Today's farmers are environmentally conscious, so newer tillage equipment pieces incorporate minimum-till features that require fewer passes over the field to prepare it for planting.
Try: Krause Corporation shows modern tillage equipment on its site. Many of its tillage equipment pieces perform a number of tasks in one pass over the field.

Application equipment

Application equipment includes sprayers and spreaders that put pesticides, herbicides and fertilizer on the ground. In some instances, the application equipment may actually use "knives" to inject the chemicals directly into the ground. This reduces chemical drift and is less wasteful.
Try: Choose from a number of application equipment options from Redball Products.

Hay and forage equipment

Hay and forage equipment preserves grasses for feed use during the winter months. This category includes mowers, rakes and balers. Balers often have attachments that allow wrappers for the hay bales that preserve the hay for storage.
Try: CCM Machinery has an example of a disc mower used to cut hay.

Harvesting equipment

Harvesting equipment gets the crops out of the field. Combines are the most common types of harvesting equipment. Many come with detachable heads that can harvest a variety of grains.
Try: See the harvesting equipment offered by Case IH.

Residential equipment

Residential equipment includes small lawn and garden tractors used in landscaping. Riding lawn mowers are a prime example of residential equipment often offered for sale at farm equipment dealerships.
Try: Snapper provides examples of residential equipment.