1. A sugar cane billet planter including a frame, a pick-up hopper mounted on the frame, a support plate rotatably journaled on the frame with a portion of one face of the support plate forming at least part of one wall of the pick-up hopper, cane carrier elements pivotally attached to said one face of the support plate, a control member rotatably journaled on the frame adjacent to the support plate, a control link connected to each cane carrier element and to the control member to control the position of the cane carrier element, drive means to rotate the support plate and thereby move each cane carrier element through the pick-up hopper where each carrier engages cane billets and carries some of the billets out of the pick-up hopper and cane carrier element unloading means mounted on the frame for removing cane billets from each cane carrier element after the cane carrier element has transported cane billets out of the pick-up hopper