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KitchenAid FVSP Fruit and Vegetable Strainer Parts for Food Grinder $40.59 Puree and strain fruits and vegetables in no time flat using this strainer attachment that works with your KitchenAid food grinder. Just attach it to your stand mixer and away you go! Make your own baby foods at home or puree vegetables or fruits for soups, sauces, jams and baked goods. It’s versatile and easy to use. Comes with four individual parts…..

KitchenAid FVSFGA Fruit/Vegetable Strainer and Food Grinder for Stand Mixers $79.99 These two accessories, which may be used with all KitchenAid household stand mixers, turn many tough kitchen chores into walks in the park. The strainer, for example, converts cooked apples and pears into sauces for preserving or immediate consumption. Freezer jams are a snap; so is fresh tomato sauce. Baby foods can be made in quantity and frozen. The grinder is equally versatile–think chuck or …

Villaware Imperia Spremy Electric Tomato Strainer V432 $249.00 A hand crank provides the muscle for this Italian-made appliance. Designed for peeling and seeding ripe tomatoes in one step, this upright food mill makes purée out of any cooked vegetable or fruit–over 20 pounds per hour if your arm can take it. A simple lever and rubber suction foot secure it to the countertop, while a removable tray directs the pulp toward the bowl as you feed foods into the …

Earthway 2750 Hand-Operated Bag Spreader/Seeder $30.15 The Earthway hand-operated bag spreader/seeder is ideal for broadcasting all types of grass seed; it works equally well with other types of seed, as well as for the application of fertilizer and other granular products. The spreader/seeder features convenient spring-action rate setting control and a high-rpm gearbox, which provides a smooth, feathered-edge broadcast. It comes with a zippered nylon…

Solo 475 4-Gallon Professional Diaphragm Backpack Sprayer $82.65 The Solo manual 4-gallon 90 psi high-pressure backpack sprayer features an ultraviolet resistant tank, felt padded polyester straps, a heavy duty pressure cylinder and reversible pump lever. The high pressure backpack sprayer is made of all high-grade, corrosion resistant plastic, with no metal or rubber parts made vulnerable to chemicals. The chemical backpack applicator includes a connecting rod…

Agri-Fab 45-0315 85-Pound Tow Broadcast Spreader $64.99 Maintain wide distribution of fertilizer while reducing the necessary time, energy, and fertilizer to cultivate an attractive, even lawn with this broadcast spreader from Illinois-based Agri-Fab. Whereas other types of spreaders often result in overlap or missed strips, creating a line effect on lawns, this broadcast spreader distributes fertilizer in a random spray pattern to cover a width of 8 t…

Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners $15.71 Seed to Seed is a complete seed-saving guide that describes specific techniques for saving the seeds of 160 different vegetables. This book contains detailed information about each vegetable, including its botanical classification, flower structure and means of pollination, required population size, isolation distance, techniques for caging or hand-pollination, and also the proper methods for harv…

Introduction to Agricultural Engineering Technology: A Problem Solving Approach $61.28 The third edition of this book exposes the reader to a wide array of engineering principles and their application to agriculture. It presents an array of more or less independent topics to facilitate daily assessments or quizzes, and aims to enhance the students’ problem solving ability. Each chapter contains objectives, worked examples and sample problems are included at the end of each chapter. …

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Back to Basics 220P20 Fine Berry Screen $14.89 This fine stainless steel berry strainer is perfect for making jellies, and jams. Features: Stainless steel screen automatically separates juice and pulp from seeds, skins and stems. Use with Food Strainer Sauce Maker…

Different Types of Agricultural Machinery

Agricultural machinery is machinery used in the operation of an agricultural area or farm.

The growing world population means that the world’s food demands are also growing. To meet those demands, production needs to be faster and more efficient than it was in the past. Agricultural machinery, such as tractors, combine harvesters, and crop dusters, help to achieve those goals.

A tractor is typically one of the most recognized pieces of agricultural machinery. What may not be as widely recognized are the capabilities these machines have and the technology they are equipped with. A tractor’s primary purpose is to haul or pull something as part of the agricultural process. With older models, this could be a very tough job.

Tractors were once simple motorized machines with two large wheels in the back and two smaller wheels in the front. Tractors have evolved into sophisticated pieces of agricultural machinery that may not even have wheels. Some models are equipped with tracks instead, and modernized tractors may also have cabs accessorized with heated seats, automatic temperature controls, and dashboard computers.

Broadcast seeders are machines that can be attached to tractors to distribute seeds. These machines come in different sizes, but the larger models are generally connected so that they can draw operational power from the tractor. Seeds are placed inside the hopper, which is a funnel-type barrel that may have multiple vanes inside. There are usually rotating disks at the bottom of the machine that can be adjusted for various spread patterns.

A combine harvester is a large machine that is used to gather grains, such as wheat, barley, and corn. This piece of agricultural machinery is significant because it performs what were traditionally three separate jobs. A combine harvester chops the plants; removes the edible portion, which is the grain; and then cleans the debris from the grain. Once the combine harvester has a significant supply in it storage tank, it can easily be loaded into a truck and transported elsewhere.

The discarded portion of the plants that the combine harvester leaves behind can often be used for hay. The remnants of those plants are typically converted into neat bales with another piece of agricultural machinery. There are machines that produce square bales and others that produce round ones. Both types of baling machines typically employ a system of gathering and forced packing to achieve the desired shape.

A crop duster is agricultural aircraft that can be used to spread agricultural substances such as pesticides or fertilizer over large areas. The pilot generally flies his plane low and the substances are sprayed in streams from the wings. Not only does this method typically save time, it also averts the risk of crops being damaged by wheeled machines.

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why do birds have gizzards instead of teeth?

i was filling up a bird seeder this morning and saw all the birds eating… Well i know that they have gizzards instead of teeth to break down their food… And i wondered why? birds body frames are constructed to be light so they can fly and that was the reason for the gizzard instead of teeth… Then i think birds eat small rocks so the rocks stay in the gizzard to crush the food. So wouldn’t that be the same as, if not more than a few teeth in the mouth?

Birds lost their teeth pretty early in their evolutionary history. The earliest known bird with a beak is the Chinese fossil Confuciusornis, which flew alongside the dinosaurs about 110 million years ago. Curiously, other birds that lived at the same time (which were more closely related to the living birds than Confuciusornis) had beaks. That shows the loss of teeth occurred independently in at least 2 different lineages of birds, and possibly more. If so, there must be a good reason for birds to get rid of their teeth.

As we know from Darwin’s finches, different birds on different Galapagos islands have different beaks so that they can feed on different foods such as nectar, small seeds or big nuts. Scientists have since discovered that the different sized beaks of these finches were achieved during the embryonic stage, by changing the timing of different developmental stages. That shows that a beak can be easily changed so that birds can adapt to different diets. If there is a sudden change in the environment, the chance that a population of birds will have some individuals who can come up with a small mutation that allows their beaks to adapt is higher than if birds had teeth and jaws that are less able to change in shape. Looking at living birds, we see all kinds of beaks of different shapes and sizes, which is undoubtedly one of the keys to the success of birds. Since they do not have teeth, birds often have to rely on gizzards stones to help them grind food within their digestive tracts. Stones can indeed weigh down a bird perhaps more than teeth, but the verstility of the beak makes the tradeoff well worth it for birds.

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