US 12,461,083 B2
Methods for improved agricultural procedures
Craig Rupp, Ames, IA (US); Corwin Spaetti, Winthrop Harbor, IL (US); Ravi Yenduri, Rolling Meadows, IL (US); Aaron Petersdorf, Hampshire, IL (US); and Adam Gaynor, Crystal Lake, IL (US)
Assigned to Sabanto, Inc., Chicago, IL (US)
Filed by Sabanto, Inc., Chicago, IL (US)
Filed on Jul. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/388,431.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/060,286, filed on Aug. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0034859 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. A01C 7/04 (2006.01); A01C 21/00 (2006.01); A01M 7/00 (2006.01); A01M 21/02 (2006.01); A01M 21/04 (2006.01); G01N 33/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 33/0098 (2013.01) [A01C 7/04 (2013.01); A01C 21/00 (2013.01); A01M 7/0089 (2013.01); A01M 21/02 (2013.01); A01M 21/04 (2013.01); A01M 21/046 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for determining a location of a seed planted in an agricultural field comprising:
providing an agricultural planter equipped with a GPS receiver;
moving the agricultural planter through the agricultural field;
depositing the seed in the agricultural field via a row unit of the agricultural planter and determining a location of the GPS receiver as the seed is deposited;
applying an offset to the location to determine an adjusted location representing the location of the planted seed in the agricultural field;
storing the adjusted location;
repeating the steps of moving the agricultural planter through the agricultural field, depositing the seed in the agricultural field via a row unit of the agricultural planter and determining the location of the GPS receiver as the seed is deposited, applying an offset to the location to determine an adjusted location representing the location of the planted seed in the agricultural field, and storing the adjusted location for each of a plurality of seeds planted in the agricultural field, thus creating an as-planted seed data set containing the adjusted location for each individual seed planted in the agricultural field and retrievable for use with a subsequent operation in the agricultural field; and
providing in a subsequent operation in the agricultural field an implement equipped with a sensor; loading the as-planted seed data set;
steering the implement such that the sensor is adjacent to the adjusted location from the as-planted seed data set; reading the sensor adjacent to the adjusted location to obtain a sensor reading; storing plant presence data if the sensor reading is indicative of a plant located at the adjusted location; and
storing plant absence data if the sensor reading is indicative of no plant located at the adjusted location.