Engineering Principles of Agricultural Machines 2nd Edition

Chapter 9
Crop Planting 
231
Introduction................................................................................................................ 231
9.1 
Methods and Equipm ent................................................................................. 231
9.1.1 
Broadcast seeding.....................................................................................231
9.1.2 
Drilling.......................................................................................................232
9.1.3 
Precision planting......................................................................................233
9.1.4 
Transplanting............................................................................................ 234
9.2 
Functional Processes........................................................................................235
9.2.1 
Seed metering............................................................................................ 235
9.2.2 
Seed transport............................................................................................ 245
9.2.3 
Furrow opening and covering................................................................. 255
9.2.4 
Transplanting............................................................................................ 258
9.3 
Evaluating Planter and Transplanter Performance........................................262
9.3.1 
Broadcast seeders......................................................................................262
9.3.2 
D rills.......................................................................................................... 264
9.3.3 
Precision planters......................................................................................264
9.3.4 
Transplanters............................................................................................. 265
Problems...................................................................................................................... 265

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