A work vehicle includes an driver's seat disposed in the rear region of a vehicle body, a left and a right fender that are disposed on the left and right laterally outward sides of the driver's seat, and a partition wall that divides, at a position behind the driver's seat, the vehicle body into a front region of the vehicle body on the front side of the partition wall and a rear region of the vehicle body on the back side thereof. Operation tools for operating working equipment provided on the vehicle body are disposed on one of the fenders, and the partition wall is provided offset toward a side where operation tools are disposed relative to the driver's seat.

A device for protecting crop plants (P) and/or sown seeds (S) against unwanted plants is provided to avoid the use of chemical weed control agents or herbicides. The device includes a ribbon or lace-shaped structure on which a plurality of annular elements are arranged at a distance from one another, in which the structure is designed to be applied to a cultivated surface (F) such that each element encloses the location (O) of a crop plant (P) or sown seed (S), and wherein each element includes a detectable means for marking the location concerned (O1, O2, . . . On) for detection by a machine for controlling mechanical weed control mechanisms. The device is thus an auxiliary or marking means which can be easily applied on the cultivated surface along the row of plants or seeds and allows reliable detection by machine of the locations of plants or seeds, zones to be protected.

A fully-automatic transplanting combined machine includes a traction apparatus, operation apparatus and a control system. The operation apparatus is mounted on the traction apparatus with a main body frame and is towed behind the traction apparatus. The operation apparatus includes a rotary tillage furrowing system, a system for slightly preparing soil and opening narrow furrows, a planting system, and a soil covering compacting system which are arranged successively from front to back. The planting system includes more than one planting unit. In the present disclosure, the fully-automatic transplanting combined machine is capable of orderly performing rotary tillage, cleaning stubble, leveling a border check, opening a furrow, cutting narrow slits, transplanting, covering soil, compacting soil in untilled soil at one process, so as to create the soil requirements for high-speed transplanting of blanket seedlings such as rape and other crops.

A fully-automatic transplanting combined machine includes a traction apparatus, operation apparatus and a control system. The operation apparatus is mounted on the traction apparatus with a main body frame and is towed behind the traction apparatus. The operation apparatus includes a rotary tillage furrowing system, a system for slightly preparing soil and opening narrow furrows, a planting system, and a soil covering compacting system which are arranged successively from front to back. The planting system includes more than one planting unit. In the present disclosure, the fully-automatic transplanting combined machine is capable of orderly performing rotary tillage, cleaning stubble, leveling a border check, opening a furrow, cutting narrow slits, transplanting, covering soil, compacting soil in untilled soil at one process, so as to create the soil requirements for high-speed transplanting of blanket seedlings such as rape and other crops.

A transplanting machine has a frame, a plowing implement, a conveyor operable to present seedlings in a tray to picking mechanisms, a plurality of mechanical gates arranged to receive the seedlings, computerized circuitry adapted to analyze portions of pixelated images of seedlings, a channel array associated with the plurality of mechanical gates, an operating mechanism in the final planting gate adapted to gate each seedling arriving at the single position into the furrow, and a closing device adapted to close the furrow. The circuitry determines a status as suitable to plant, transmits the status to a controller that activates the mechanical gates in a sequential order, except for when the seedling is not suitable, in which circumstance that mechanical gate is skipped, such that in a next cycle two seedlings will be gated to the single position together, and one will be suitable to plant.

A first machine of a tree planting system includes: a cultivator cultivating soil where a plant for tree planting is to be planted; a first traveling device traveling with the cultivator; and a cultivated position detector obtaining and outputting actual cultivated positions corresponding to positions of the cultivator while the cultivator travels with the first traveling device and cultivates the soil. A management device of the tree planting system stores actual cultivated positions. A second machine of the tree planting system includes: a planting device planting a plant in the soil; a second traveling device traveling with the planting device; a planting device position detector obtaining a position of the planting device; and a controller controlling a position of the planting device based on: actual cultivated positions acquired from the management device; and the position of the planting device at the timing when a plant is planted.

A first machine of a tree planting system includes: a cultivator cultivating soil where a plant for tree planting is to be planted; a first traveling device traveling with the cultivator; and a cultivated position detector obtaining and outputting actual cultivated positions corresponding to positions of the cultivator while the cultivator travels with the first traveling device and cultivates the soil. A management device of the tree planting system stores actual cultivated positions. A second machine of the tree planting system includes: a planting device planting a plant in the soil; a second traveling device traveling with the planting device; a planting device position detector obtaining a position of the planting device; and a controller controlling a position of the planting device based on: actual cultivated positions acquired from the management device; and the position of the planting device at the timing when a plant is planted.

A planting machine (1) for plants (2), such as seedlings (2), said planting machine (1) being provided for arranging plants (2) in a field (5) in such a way that, after being arranged in the field (5), the plants (2) comprise an above-ground portion (3) that extends above ground and an underground portion (4) that extends underground, said planting machine (1) comprising a detection system for detecting the plants (2) after the plants (2) have been arranged in the field, said detection system comprising at least one measuring instrument (6) for detecting said above-ground portions (3) of the plants, and a method for mapping the position of plants (2) in a field (5).

A planting machine (1) for plants (2), such as seedlings (2), said planting machine (1) being provided for arranging plants (2) in a field (5) in such a way that, after being arranged in the field (5), the plants (2) comprise an above-ground portion (3) that extends above ground and an underground portion (4) that extends underground, said planting machine (1) comprising a detection system for detecting the plants (2) after the plants (2) have been arranged in the field, said detection system comprising at least one measuring instrument (6) for detecting said above-ground portions (3) of the plants, and a method for mapping the position of plants (2) in a field (5).

A soil bed covering and planting apparatus is adapted to be carried along the length of a soil bed by a conveyer vehicle and includes a cover material reel configured to retain and supply a sheet of cover material, and a compaction roller configured to feed cover material over a soil bed and to press the cover material onto the soil bed. Two spike hammers are positioned adjacent to and at opposite sides of the compaction roller, each being configured to drive at least one spike through the cover material into the soil bed. An actuation structure is associated with each spike hammer and urges the spike hammer against a spike. A piercing assembly forms a series of holes in the sheet of cover material and engages with a drive structure that reciprocates the piercing assembly to drive one end of the piercing assembly through the sheet of cover material.