A transplanting device separates a seedling bed piece with a seedling from a seedling bed along slits and transplants the separated seedling bed piece to a permanent planting panel. The transplanting device includes a separating mechanism and a transplanting mechanism. The separating mechanism includes a holding member and is capable of separating the seedling bed piece from the seedling bed. The transplanting mechanism is capable of transplanting the separated seedling bed piece to the permanent planting panel. The separating mechanism includes an engagement bar capable of hampering movement of an adjacent seedling bed piece adjacent to a holding-target seedling bed piece held by the holding member by becoming engaged with the adjacent seedling bed piece from a side that is different from a first side, on which the stalk of the seedling grows.

The tree planting machine includes a vehicle main unit, a washing water tank, a planting device, a washing water circuit, and a controller. The washing water tank is attached to the vehicle main body and holds water. The planting device is disposed on the vehicle main unit. The washing water circuit connects the washing water tank and the planting devices. The controller controls the washing water circuit so as to supply the water from the washing water tank to the planting devices.

A furrow opener on an agricultural ground working implement has an opener body supported on a tool supporting shank of the implement and a replaceable furrowing tip body on the opener body. A delivery passage extends through the opener body and the tip body to deposit granular material in a furrow formed in the ground by the furrow opener. The tip body has a vertical knife portion and laterally protruding wings. Each wing further includes a soil shield portion projecting upwardly from the inner edge of the respective wing alongside the corresponding side surface of the opener body so as to resist penetration of soil into the chamber through a seam between the inner edge of the wing and the corresponding side surface of the opener body.

A transplanter including a frame structure that is configured to support a tray, an operating handle structure, and a base structure including a chute. The frame structure can include a furrower to from a furrow in soil and the transplanter can also include a furrow closing structure configured to close the furrow at a location beyond an end of the chute. The operating handle structure can enable one or more attributes of the operating handle to be selectively reconfigured. The base structure can be fabricated from one or more injection molded parts.

This present invention provides an automatic pot seedlings feeding mechanism for semi-automatic transplanter, comprising a transmission mechanism, a slider-crank mechanism, a stop lever, a side plate, a resetting mechanism and a bearing with bearing support. The transmission mechanism includes a transmission shaft I, a driving wheel, a transmission shaft II, a transmission shaft III and a conveyor belt. Under the performance of the conveyor belt, the pot seedlings are transported forward to the position of the stop lever. The slider-crank mechanism comprises a crank, a slider bar and a sliding chute, the crank and the driving wheel are connected through a revolute pair A, which is on the driving wheel, but not at the center of the driving wheel. The slider is securely connected with the resetting mechanism.

A metering system for an agricultural system includes an inductor. The inductor includes a receiving portion configured to receive plantlet casings at a feed rate, a conduit coupled to the receiving portion and configured to receive the plantlet casings from the receiving portion, where the conduit is configured to convey the plantlet casings to at least one row unit, an air source fluidly coupled to the conduit and configured to provide an air flow through the conduit to convey the plantlet casings to the at least one row unit, and a physical feature configured to block flow of the plantlet casings toward the air source.

An agricultural machine system for performing agricultural tasks in a field on which plants are planted or will be planted in a pattern, the system comprising: a prime mover; a tool bar connected to the prime mover; a plurality of units attached to the tool bar, the units configured to perform at least one agricultural tasks and wherein at least two of the units are disposed in an offset relationship from each other with respect to a forward direction of travel of the agricultural machine about the tool bar; and a control unit in communication with the prime mover and the plurality of units, the control unit configured to determine a selective location corresponding to the pattern in which plants are planted or will be planted and activate the units at the selective location to perform the at least one agricultural task as the agricultural machine system travels along a plurality of rows.

An agricultural machine system for performing agricultural tasks in a in a field on which plants are planted or will be planted in a pattern, the system comprising: a prime mover; a tool bar connected to the prime mover; a plurality of units attached to the tool bar, the units configured to perform at least one agricultural tasks and wherein at least two of the units are disposed in an offset relationship from each other with respect to a forward direction of travel of the agricultural machine about the tool bar; and a control unit in communication with the prime mover and the plurality of units, the control unit configured to determine a selective location corresponding to the pattern in which plants are planted or will be planted and activate the units at the selective location to perform the at least one agricultural task as the agricultural machine system travels along a plurality of rows.

A system for measuring crop seed rate of a planting machine, the system including a camera having a first field of view through which crop material may pass, and one or more electronic controllers in operable communication with the camera and the planting machine. The one or more electronic controls are configured to receive image data from the camera, identify one or more attributes of the crop material positioned in the field of view of the camera, determine a speed associated with the planting machine, determine a current crop seed rate of the planting machine based at least in part on the one or more attributes of the crop material in the field of view and the speed of the planting machine, and output one or more recommended operating conditions to the planting machine based at least in part on the determined crop seed rate.

Disclosed is a system and method that provides a sprig plugger that inserts sprigs into soil using a movable tine in conjunction with an aerator or purpose-built mechanical sprig plugger.