Methods and systems for seed planting management and control

Svoboda, John M; Hess, J Richard; Hoskinson, Reed L; Harker, David J

Title: Methods and systems for seed planting management and control

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A seed planting system providing optimal seed spacing in an agricultural field. The seed planting system includes a mobile seed planter having one or more planting shoes, or members being adapted for towing by a farm vehicle or being self-propelled. Sensors, disposed proximate to respective planting shoes, detect seed planting events and send corresponding signals to a computer. Contemporaneously, a geospatial locator acquires, and transmits to the computer, the geospatial location of each planted seed. The computer correlates the geospatial location data with the seed deposition data and generates a seed distribution profile indicating the location of each seed planted in a zone of interest to enable the control of speed spacing.

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Svoboda, John M ^[1]; Hess, J Richard ^[1]; Hoskinson, Reed L ^[2]; Harker, David J ^[1]

Idaho Falls, ID
Rigby, ID

Issue Date:: 2002-01-01

Research Org.:: Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)

OSTI Identifier:: 874419

Patent Number(s):: 6386128

Assignee:: Bechtel BWXT Idaho. LLC (Idaho Falls, ID)

Patent Classifications (CPCs):: A - HUMAN NECESSITIES A01 - AGRICULTURE A01B - SOIL WORKING IN AGRICULTURE OR FORESTRY

A - HUMAN NECESSITIES A01 - AGRICULTURE A01C - PLANTING

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A - HUMAN NECESSITIES A01 - AGRICULTURE A01B - SOIL WORKING IN AGRICULTURE OR FORESTRY
A01B79/005 - {Precision agriculture}

A - HUMAN NECESSITIES A01 - AGRICULTURE A01C - PLANTING
A01C7/105 - {Seed sensors}

Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y10 - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC Y10S - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
Y10S111/90 - Methods of planting seeds and miscellaneous compositions

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DOE Contract Number:: AC07-94ID13223

Resource Type:: Patent

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: methods; systems; seed; planting; management; control; providing; optimal; spacing; agricultural; field; mobile; planter; shoes; adapted; towing; farm; vehicle; self-propelled; sensors; disposed; proximate; detect; events; send; signals; computer; contemporaneously; geospatial; locator; acquires; transmits; location; planted; correlates; data; deposition; generates; distribution; profile; indicating; zone; enable; speed; /111/701/

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