20828 results about "Crop" patented technology

The invention relates to an agricultural working machine (1), in particular a forage harvester (2), with at least one spout (4) for conveying received and processed crop (7) to a transport vehicle (6, 25), wherein an electro-optical device (18) is provided for the direction control of the spout (4) at least during the process of conveying to the transport vehicle (6, 25), and wherein the electro-optical device (18) detects characteristic parameters (30) of the spout (4) and characteristic parameters (30) of the transport vehicle (6) and/or the agricultural working machine (1). This ensures that a control of a spout (4) of agricultural working machines (1, 2) is provided which almost completely relieves the operator of the agricultural working machine (1, 2) of the task of monitoring the spout.

An computer implemented apparatus and method are disclosed for defining areas of a field in which a crop or other vegetation is grown based on their selective ability to grow such vegetation through a growing season, or some shorter preselected time period. The method includes making a number of temporally separated measurements through air borne imaging of a field, registering the data to the geography of the field and each other, normalizing the data including converting the data to a vegetative index indicative to the presence of vegetation in the field, comparing the data to identify clusters of like value, and classifying the clusters and images to learn how the different field areas responded in growing vegetation through the season. With this method, the field may be segregated into a number of like areas called crop response zones which exhibit similar vegetative growth characteristics as an aid to a grower in his decision making regarding how to maximize yield in his field.

The invention relates to a method for the control of weeds at a crop locus, said method comprising the application of an effective amount of: (a) a glyphosate herbicide which is glyphosate or a derivative thereof; and (b) at least one HPPD-inhibiting herbicide; wherein the crop is tolerant to glyphosate and optionally the HPPD-inhibiting herbicide.

In the processes for treating municipal sewage and storm water containing biosolids to discharge standards, biosolids, even after dewatering, contain typically about 80% water bound in the dead cells of the biosolids, which gives biosolids a negative heating value. It can be incinerated only at the expense of purchased fuel. Biosolids are heated to a temperature at which their cell structure is destroyed and, preferably, at which carbon dioxide is split off to lower the oxygen content of the biosolids. The resulting char is not hydrophilic, and it can be efficiently dewatered and/or dried and is a viable renewable fuel. This renewable fuel can be supplemented by also charging conventional biomass (yard and crop waste, etc.) in the same or in parallel facilities. Similarly, non-renewable hydrophilic fuels can be so processed in conjunction with the processing of biosolids to further augment the energy supply.

Modern farming is currently being done by powerful ground equipment or aircraft that weigh several tons and treat uniformly tens of hectares per hour. Automated farming can use small, agile, lightweight, energy-efficient automated robotic equipment that flies to do the same job, even able to farm on a plant-by-plant basis, allowing for new ways of farming. A hybrid airship-drone has both passive lift provided by a gas balloon and active lift provided by propellers. A hybrid airship-drone may be cheaper, more stable in flight, and require less maintenance than other aerial vehicles such as quadrocopters. However, hybrid airship-drones may also be larger in size and have more inertia that needs to be overcome for starting, stopping and turning.

The invention provides compositions comprising polynucleotide molecules encoding certain pesticidal polypeptides which exhibit plant parasitic nematode and/or insect control properties, and are particularly directed to controlling plant parasitic pest species of nematodes and insects known to infest crop plant species. Methods for controlling pests are disclosed in which the toxic proteins are provided in the diet of the targeted plant pests. The invention also provides compositions such as nucleic acids, proteins, and plant and bacterial cells, plants, and seeds containing the nucleic acid and protein compositions, as well as methods and kits for identifying, detecting, and isolating the compositions of the present invention. The invention further provides a method of producing crops from recombinant seeds which contain the polynucleotide molecules encoding the pesticidal polypeptides of the present invention.

The invention discloses a bactericide pesticide composite containing oligochitosan, which comprises a component A and a component B, wherein the component A is oligochitosan or a derivative of the oligochitosan; and the component B is one or several of active compounds. The pesticide composition can produce a synergistic action, reduce the dosage of a chemically synthetic bactericide, prevent or delay the medicament resistance of the bactericide, improve crop stress resistance and yield, regulate metabolic balance in plant bodies and improve quality of agricultural products, improve the application safety of the bactericide and is more safe to ecological environmental and human bodies.

A method and system for evaluating crop performance obtains weather data for defined geographic locations within a geographic area. Historic soil data is obtained for the defined geographic locations within a geographic area. Historic yield data is obtained for the defined geographic area for a representative crop. Predictive data nodes are determined based on at least one of the obtained weather data, the historic soil data, and the historic yield data. Each node is associated with a certain range of average yields for a particular crop.

A method and computer program/system for cropping a digital image includes inputting a belief map of a photographic image, (a belief value at a location in the belief map indicates an importance of a photographic subject at the same location in the photographic image), selecting a zoom factor and a crop window, clustering regions of the belief map to identify background portions, secondary portions and main portions, positioning the crop window such that the crop window is centered around a main portion having a highest belief value, moving the crop window such that the crop window is included completely within the image, moving the crop window such that a sum of belief values is at a maximum, and cropping the image according to the crop window.

A system and method for managing a crop insurance program facilitates determining an input management plan for application of a crop input to a field within a defined geographic area. A first yield per land unit is measured. The first yield per land unit pertains to a particular crop associated with the field. A second yield per land unit is estimated. The second yield per land unit relates to the particular crop associated with the defined geographic area. A difference or variation is determined between the first yield and the second yield. The determined difference is made available to a receiving entity (e.g., an insurer that is associated with at least one of claims and insurance on the field).

By selecting a template, a crop boundary (98a) is displayed on an image on a screen. The crop boundary has a corresponding shape to that of a frame of the selected template, and is variable in size while keeping the same shape and being centered on a reference point (98e). Upper and lower horizontal lines (98b, 98c) are also displayed inside the crop boundary to define an internal zone (98d), and the center point on the upper horizontal line is defined as the reference point. By placing the reference point on the top of the head of a human subject contained in the displayed image and then moving the lower horizontal line to align it with the chin, the internal zone is adjusted to the head of the human subject. In cooperation with the movement of the lower reference line, the crop boundary is automatically enlarged or reduced so as to keep the internal zone in a predetermined proportion and position relative to the crop boundary.

A method and system of evaluating crop performance facilitates characterization of the environmental impact of a geographic region or areas within the region for growing plant-life. Environmental measurements are obtained. The environmental measurements are associated with a geographic region. Each environmental measurement includes at least one of soil data and weather data. Respective location data is obtained. The location data is associated with corresponding environmental measurements. An estimated performance characteristic is determined for a particular crop planted in the geographic region based on the obtained environmental measurements and respective location data. Contours are established for one or more uniform performance areas with generally uniform performance characteristic within the geographic region by applying a decision-tree analysis to the obtained environmental measurements.

The invention relates to an organic environmentally-friendly soil conditioner for improving acidified or acid soil and a preparation method thereof. The soil conditioner is prepared from the following raw materials in parts by weight: 23-46 parts of biogas residue, 14-24 parts of shell powder, 16-25 parts of calcium magnesium phosphate fertilizer, 13-20 parts of plant ash, 0.1-0.2 part of chitosan, 5-7 parts of zeolite powder and 6-9 parts of bentonite. The soil conditioner is prepared through pretreatment of the biogas residue, pretreatment of the shell powder and the like; through the produced soil conditioner, the pH value of soil can be increased; nutritive elements such as calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium and the like in the soil are increased; the organic matter content in the soil is increased; the water retention and fertilizer retention capacity of the soil is improved; the physicochemical property of the soil is improved; the antiretroviral (diseases, pests, drought and the like) capacity of crops is improved; heavy metal poison is reduced; and the soil conditioner is convenient to apply, is not influenced by wind power and is suitable for mechanical working.

The invention relates to a stable controlled release particle pesticide-containing fertilizer. The pesticide-containing fertilizer has a core-shell structure, is granular and comprises a core which is composed of a fertilizer and a microcapsule pesticide or pesticide pulvis adsorbed by a porous material, and a shell which is used as a controlled release layer. The invention enables the pesticide and the fertilizer to stably exist and to be slowly released, frequency of pesticide application and fertilizer application in growth stages of crops to be reduced and field labor to be saved.

A remotely controlled flying apparatus (200) utilized for crop-spraying and crop monitoring purposes is disclosed. The present indention comprises a microcontroller (110) electronically coupled to an inertia measuring means (120). A controller (140) is connected to a computer (130) to allow a user to control movements of the flying apparatus (200). The computer (130) interprets control motions of the controller (140) and translates the motions to control signals. Upon translation, control signals are sent to the microcontroller (110) wirelessly and the control signals are modulated by a pulse modulation generator (150) before they are sent to a plurality of speed controllers (160a-160d) which are coupled to a plurality of motors (170a-! 70d). The controller (140) allows the user to control the motions of the flying apparatus remote! }, by changing respective rotational speeds of the plurality of motors (170a-170d). The controller (140) also allows the user to wirelessly control a pump (180) or a camera (190) or both through the computer (130) for spraying a pesticide or fertilizer fluid—when necessary or for crop monitoring purposes.

The entire right, title and interest in and to this application and all subject matter disclosed and/or claimed therein, including any and all divisions, continuations, reissues, etc., thereof are, effective as of the date of execution of this application, assigned, transferred, sold and set over by the applicant(s) named herein to Deere & Company, a Delaware corporation having offices at Moline, Ill. 61265, U.S.A., together with all rights to file, and to claim priorities in connection with, corresponding patent applications in any and all foreign countries in the name of Deere & Company or otherwise.

Systems and methods are provided for directly linking a harvest environment using precision farming techniques to the marketplace. It is a feature of this invention that properties of crops are evaluated "on-the-move," during the harvest thereof, and are made known to users in the harvest environment to enable the real-time transaction for the sale of these crops. In a preferred embodiment, crops are harvested from an agricultural field in the harvest environment with a combine having an auger section thereon. A plurality of properties of the crops are evaluated on-the-move by flowing the harvested crops through the auger section and over an optical device. The optical device utilizes light reflected from the crops to determine the properties. Thereafter, the marketplace is searched with a computing configuration aboard the combine for a market seeking the crop properties. If a market is found, a wireless communication link between the harvest environment and the market is used to transact for a sale of the crops. The properties of the crops are correlated to a location in the agricultural field to expand the knowledge base about the field to enhance future precision farming operations.

The present invention is in the field of genetics, especially plant genetics, and provides agents capable of controlling gene expression. The present invention specifically provides sequences of naturally occurring, tissue-specifically expressed microRNAs. The invention further provides for transgenic expression constructs comprising sequences encoding said microRNAs. By incorporation of the microRNA encoding sequence the expression from said expression construct is specifically silenced in the tissue where the naturally occurring microRNA is naturally expressed. Thereby the expression profile resulting from the promoter is modulated and leakiness is reduced. The invention further provides for a method for modulating transgenic expression by incorporating sequences encoding said microRNAs into transgenic expression constructs. The compositions and methods of the invention can be used to enhance performance of agricultural relevant crops and for therapy, prophylaxis, research and diagnostics in diseases and disorders, which afflict mammalian species.

The invention discloses a method for cultivating pure white needle mushrooms. The method comprises the following steps: a strain is prepared; a culture material is prepared; bagging and sterilization are carried out; inoculation is carried out; a mycelium is cultured; nutrition, humidity, temperature, light, air and other culture conditions are strictly controlled during a fruiting period; and harvesting is carried out in an optimum period. the formulation of the culture material is 0 to 32 percent of weed tree sawdust, 0 to 93 percent of cotton seed hulls or wheat straw, straw, corncob and other crop straw, 0 to 20 percent of wheat bran, 0 to 10 percent of corn meal, 0 to 10 percent of soybean meal, 0 to 1 percent of calcium carbonate, 0 to 0.2 percent of monopotassium phosphate, 0 to 0.2 percent of magnesium sulfate, 1 to 1.2 percent of sucrose, 0 to 10 percent of rice bran, 0 to 1 percent of plaster and 0 to 0.02 percent of urea. Quicklime and wettable carbendazim are added during the preparation of the culture material so as to prevent the pollution of undesired bacteria. The technical proposal aims to select proper breeds, popularize local large scale planting and improve cultivation benefit.

The invention relates to a controlled release particle fertilizer used for controlling crop insect diseases. The fertilizer has a double layer core shell structure and is in a granular shape and comprised of a core, an interface layer cladding the core and a controlled release layer as a casing cladding the interface layer. The core contains fertilizers required by a crop, and the interface layer cladding the core contains pesticide; or according to production requirement, the core contains particles with pesticide, and the interface layer cladding the core contains fertilizers; and an outermost layer is a controlled release layer controlling dissolving of pesticide and fertilizers. According to the invention, pesticide and fertilizer can coexist stably and release slowly, so as to reduce drug application and fertilizing times during a crop fertility stage and save field labor.

A transport system for a crop header includes a first and a second wheel arrangement on the header frame adjacent a respective ends for acting as a stabilizer when the header is in the operating position and movable to a transport position for transporting the header when removed from the vehicle in a transport direction generally longitudinal of the header frame and at a right angle to the working direction with each being mounted on the header frame for rotation of a rolling direction of the first wheel arrangement between the working position and the transport position, in which the rolling direction is along the transport direction. Each of the wheel arrangements includes two parallel wheels coupled together. The wheel arrangement at the rear end includes a second wheel which is mounted on a swing arm so as to be moved to a position adjacent the cutter bar so that the header is stably supported on the first wheel arrangement, the first wheel of the second wheel arrangement and the second wheel of the second wheel arrangement. The first and second wheels of the second wheel arrangement include coupling members for connection together to operate as a common wheel arrangement in the operating position. The swing arm includes a tower which attaches to the cutter bar and can fold down on to the swing arm in the field position.

Embodiments include a ground scout having an ability to identify the location of rows of crops and the end of the rows so that it can navigate, but in other embodiments, the ground scout can also rely more on an aerial drone to navigate, to act as a communication relay system, and so on. A buddy system including a ground scout and an air scout (e.g. drone) communicate their findings with each other.

The invention discloses a field intelligent irrigation on-line control management method. According to the invention, a small automatic weather station collects meteorological data; a soil water environment monitoring device determines the soil water content of a crop root area in real time; the soil water content of the root area is imported and stored in a database; a client logs in a field real-time intelligent irrigation system on-line; and field soil information management, crop information management, field real-time monitoring, field real-time irrigation simulation and irrigation forecasting, field information inquiry, and information statistics can be carried out. With the method provided by the invention, remote on-line irrigation real-time guidance can be carried out. Based on a network, real-time data collected by a data collection system is subjected to secondary processing such as analysis, induction and processing; the crop real-time evapotranspiration is calculated; and crop real-time insufficient irrigation simulation, irrigation forecasting and irrigation management are carried out on-line. Through system internal processing such as model simulation, parameter simulation and the like, decisions that whether the crop needs irrigation, irrigation water amount and irrigation time can be precisely made.

Novel triglyceride oils are provided for human consumption. Traditionally, agricultural materials such as canola, soybean, and olives have been the sources of edible oils, and such materials are limited by the geography in which these crops can be cultivated. Oils of the invention can be manufactured from edible and inedible heterotrophic fermentation feedstocks, including corn starch, sugar cane, glycerol, and depolymerized cellulose that are purpose-grown or byproducts of existing agricultural processes from an extremely broad diversity of geographic regions. The food oils disclosed herein are low in saturates, high in monounsaturates, and can be manufactured in reduced pigment form through the use of pigment-reduced microalgae strains. The food oils disclosed herein can be manufactured through the use of a variety of different types of oil-producing microalgae.

A composition is provided that includes particulates from wood, chaff, hulls, crop compost, biochar, or waste residue, wood or crop ash and biochar, and a nitrogen source from waste residue from gasification processes, food processing waste water or other residual by-products of forest, aquatic, food or feed processing. Ideally, all of the components are environmentally friendly, from natural products, and free of manufactured chemicals.

The invention relates to a preparation method of a foliar fertilizer which comprises nucleic acid degradation products. The invention is characterized in that: malt sprout is employed to obtain nuclease liquid with a low temperature water extraction method, nucleic acid solution and enzyme solution are blended according to a proportion by weight of 1 : 2 to 3 portions of nucleic acid and malt sprout, and the solution is hydrolyzed at a temperature of 65 DEG C and a condition of pH 5.6 for 3 to 4 hours, then a nucleic acid degradation product foliar fertilizer is obtained after enzyme dispelling, filtering, enzyme and milling. The preparation method of the invention is characterized by simple technique, easily available raw material, pollution free exhaust and low production cost; the prepared nucleic acid degradation products of the foliar fertilizer are nucleosides, nucleotides, pyrimidine, purine and other micromolecule, thus being beneficial to the metabolism process of nucleic acid, and the invention also contains a great amount of nutrient components such as glucide, protein and minerals, etc., which are needed by the growth of crops, thus promoting the growth of crops, strengthening resistance and obviously improving yield and quality; the yield of wheat is improved by 7 to 10 percent, protein content is improved by 1 percent and wheat gluten content is improved by 3 percent; solution is prepared by the foliar fertilizer of the invention according to requirements of the growth of crops to spray; absorption speed of foliage is fast, and brings no pollution to soil; the foliar fertilizer is a non polluted green fertilizer.

The invention discloses a spin milling type multifunctional machine for deeply ploughing and crushing ridges, which is based on a tractor. A hydraulic mechanism and a linking spin milling drill bit device or a cultivation component is arranged on a rear frame of the tractor; the linking spin milling drill bit device is provided with one or more drill bit shafts; spiral hinges are arranged on the drill bit shafts and provided with apical teeth; the linking spin milling drill bit device is provided with a device for preventing a straw from being wound; the hydraulic mechanism drives a spin milling drill bit to move up and down; and a gearbox drives the spin milling drill bit by a connecting rod and a gear. According to the spin milling type multifunctional machine, the drill bit enters intosoil and then vertically cuts, spin mills and crushes the soil and ensures that the soil is automatically suspended to form the ridges; the soil crushing section of the crushed ridge is T-shaped; thelower part of the compacted soil on the ground is in a U-shaped groove, so that the whole layer of the soil is in a loosing state during cultivation; and in addition, the invention plays roles of covering and replacing the soil, increases an active layer, improves the capabilities of preserving moisture and fertility and the permeability of the soil, benefits the utilization of deep growing of the crop root system to water and fertilizer, relatively reduces pests and weeds and ensures that the crop is easy to obtain high and stable yield.

The invention relates to a plant growth regulator composition containing maleic hydrazide and the purposes thereof. The composition contains maleic hydrazide (A) and a combination of known plant growth regulators, such as paclobutrazol, uniconazole, cycocel, mepiquat chloride, triapenthenol, daminozide, ethephon, taterpex and thidiazuron, wherein the weight ratio of the (A) to the (B) is 1: 300 to 500:1 and preferable 1:100 to 300:1, the (A) and the (B) can be proportioned with known aids and an excipient to prepare any agriculturally acceptable preparation; and the agriculturally acceptable preparation can be diluted with water or soil into a needed concentration of 1-8000 mg/kg, preferable 50-5000 mg/kg and used for regulating the growth of cultured plants, such as hedge plants, lawns, landscape plants, fruit trees, vegetables, economic crops, food oil crops and forage grass through the treatments of irrigation, flood irrigation, fertilization with water, jetting, spraying, scattering, smearing, injecting, transfusing, dressing seeds, spreading fertilizer, dispersing, and the like. The composition has the advantages of wide range of applications, low cost, good effect and synergy.

A farm greenhouse monitor and alarm management system based on the Internet of things with real-time monitoring environmental parameters, which is aimed at monitoring and managing the growth of crops in the farm greenhouse, includes mobile inspection devices, data acquisition units, data receiving devices, REID devices and data storage servers. The system can automatically collect such greenhouse environmental parameters as air temperature, air humidity, illumination, soil temperature and soil moisture etc. and also automatically judge the critical value of every parameter and alarm otherwise. It utilizes ZigBee chip integrated wireless sensors and data collecting modules. This system provides inspection devices, which lowers the requirements for practitioners and reduces the cost of automatic management of the farm greenhouse.

The invention provides herbicide combinations and the use of herbicide combinations for controlling harmful plants in cereal crops wherein the herbicide combination in question comprises

• • (A) a herbicide from the group of the compounds of the formula (A1)

and the cereal crops are tolerant, if appropriate in the presence of safeners, to the herbicides (A) and (B) present in the combination.