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Automatic method and apparatus for transplanting crops includes a transplanting apparatus which receives trays of seedlings from a greenhouse and sequentially displaces the seedlings from the trays into selected crop rows via an automatic process. The method and apparatus utilizes a plurality of flu

Automatic method and apparatus for transplanting crops includes a transplanting apparatus which receives trays of seedlings from a greenhouse and sequentially displaces the seedlings from the trays into selected crop rows via an automatic process. The method and apparatus utilizes a plurality of fluid dispensers mounted on the transplanting apparatus selectively operable for directing fluid against the ground to form a plurality of laterally spaced-apart plant-receiving cavities. The fluid dispensers are positioned in advance of a carriage which is provided on the apparatus for receiving a plurality of seedling trays. The carriage is provided with plant setters which are selectively operable for engaging selected seedlings in selected rows of the seedling trays and displacing them substantially vertically downwardly from a selected cell into a plant-receiving cavity.

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A method for transplanting seedling plugs from seedling trays having cells aligned in separate rows into a plurality of spaced-apart crop rows in a field comprising: orienting the seedling trays by a vehicle means over a field to be transplanted; forming a plurality of laterally spaced-apart plant-r

A method for transplanting seedling plugs from seedling trays having cells aligned in separate rows into a plurality of spaced-apart crop rows in a field comprising: orienting the seedling trays by a vehicle means over a field to be transplanted; forming a plurality of laterally spaced-apart plant-receiving cavities in the ground aligned on the crop rows; maintaining the seedling trays substantially stationary relative to the field at selected intervals during travel of the vehicle means; engaging upper surfaces of the seedling plugs in different rows of the seedling trays and displacing them substantially vertically downwardly through and free from a cell while holding the seedling plugs by impaling means for insertion into the plant-receiving cavities; and releasing the seedling plugs from the impaling means into associated plant-receiving cavities.