John Deere has many different types of farm equipment and implements. In this essay I will classify John Deere's equipment and briefly explain what they are used for. The types of equipment that John Deere offers is tillage, planting and seeding, harvesting, hay and forage, spraying, material handling, cutters and shredders, skidsteers, and tractors.
The first type I will talk about is tillage. Under tillage there is plows, chisel plows, discs, rippers, row crop cultivators, field cultivators, finishers, combination tools, rotary hoes, and roller harrows. These tools are used for "ripping" up the ground while digging and cutting up plants left from harvest. This is done so the ground won't get hard and to stir up the nutrients in the soil.
Planting and seeding is an important part of this essay, without this we couldn't grow plants. In planting and seeding there is no till air seeders and drills and there is integral and drawn planters. A no till air seeder is a planter that uses air pressure to push the seeds into the ground; therefore there is no tilling necessary. It is the same for the drill, except, the drill doesn't use air pressure to put the seeds into the ground. It has a series of knives and round blades that cut the ground open, then it drops the seeds in and then a roller covers up the seeds. Drawn and integral planters are similar but not as rugged. They work the same way as the drill, no air pressure, but they need softer ground for the seeds to go in, and that is where the tillage equipment comes in handy.
In harvesting there are combines and cotton harvesters. A combine is a tractor with different attachments on the front of it to cut different types of crops. It has a corn head for corn and a grain head for wheat, beans and hay. The combine cuts down the crop, run it through series of screens and grinders to remove the seed from the plant, and the puts the seeds in a storage bin on top, and spits the rest of the plant out of the back.