Next is a photo of a John Deere 1990 CCS no-till air seeding drill. Drills of this nature have become virtually mandatory for accurate placement of seeds in no-till planting schemes. They have also proven very accurate in metering lower seeding rates often associated with hybrid varieties of rice. Widths are available up to 40.5 feet, allowing a couple hundred acres to be planted each day. 
Spraying of herbicides on rice and other crops must be done with a ground sprayer until use of a turbine cropduster becomes economical. Below is a photo of a Bowman Mudmaster field and levee sprayer that is built in Newport, Arkansas. The Mudmaster accomodates broadcast spray booms, levee spraying booms, and several other optional attachments. A trailer is available for towing the sprayer, which also comes equipped with a nurse tank to refill the onboard spraying tank.
Harvesting of rice on Amerigui Plantation will require a combine similar to the one pictured below, which is a John Deere 9760 equipped with a Shelbourne Reynolds stripper header. Amerigui Plantation already owns a stripper header similar to the one pictured below. Stripper headers are extremely efficient in harvesting rice since only the grain and flag leaves are ingested into the combine for threshing and cleaning.
A second header will be needed to harvest grain sorghum, such as the MacDon draper header shown below that is owned by Amerigui Plantation. Draper headers are also able to harvest rice, which provides a measure of redundancy, limiting mechanical harvest risks. Corn (maize) requires its own header style.
When the combine's grain tank is filled it is necessary to discharge the harvested grain into a field cart for transport to semi-trucks towing hopper-bottom trailers. A grain cart of the size shown below will hold two combine hoppers. Field carts allow the combine to remain productive rather than constantly delivering grain to waiting grain trailers.
Hopper-bottom grain trailers, such as the Manac/CPS 42' model shown below, will be sent to Amerigui Plantation to transport grain from the fields to grain storage tanks, and later to the on-site rice and poultry feed mills. 
The photo below is a Dennis 20' x 56' float-style landplane. These landplanes keep fields in level condition, create a better seedbed, and maintain moisture for planting. A landplane of this style will be built in Waldenburg, Arkansas, but will be shipped in several pieces for reassembly at Amerigui Plantation.
The P30 Purdy landleveler shown below is a mainstay of Arkansas rice production. Its bridge-style construction and larger grader blades permits incremental leveling of fields by shaving off high spots and depositing the soil in field depressions. Each of these two landplane styles serve distinct purposes and can be found on most Arkansas rice farms. The P30 has proved very useful in the no-till/minimum till planting schemes that have become very popular in recent years.
The spreading of large amounts of phosphorus, potassium, and nitrogen fertilizers will be required on all Amerigui Plantation fields. An 8-ton Willmar fertilizer spreader has already been delivered to Amerigui Plantation, which will be used to spread fertlizers in the off-season or prior to planting. However, single axle high-profile stainless steel spreader carts such as the one shown below are required to apply nitrogen onto emerged crops with minimal damage. A 5-ton model manufactured by Adams in DeWitt, Arkansas will be exported to Amerigui Plantation.
