Tractor equipment and their uses

Tractor equipment and their uses

Trevor Raupach, Reporter

Equipment is attached to the back of tractors that can cut, rake, bale, plow, etc. The equipment is designed to do a specific job in a field of grass or crops. The first piece of equipment used in crops is to plow it with a trailer plow to open up air between where the old crops were.

A few days after the field is plowed it needs to be harrowed. A harrow breaks up the hardened clumps that the plow dried off. The snow makes the dirt harden and plowing the soil opens up the soil to dry the clumps, then the clumps need to dry so the harrow can break them up and smooth out the soil.

A few days later the seeds can be planted after the soil is dry, clump free, smooth and leveled out.