Abstract: This invention resides in cane planting apparatus which is operable to plant cane billets which have been deposited at random into a container such as during mechanical cane harvesting. In cane planting apparatus according to this invention, cane billets are transported from said container into a cane planting furrow by conveyor means which act firstly to align the cane billets in parallel relationship with the cane planting furrow and secondly, to feed said aligned cane billets into the cane planting furrow at regular intervals for planting therein.