Grain management based on nutrient characteristics
AssigneeIntelliFarms, LLC
InventorsJohnselvakumar Lawrence, Charles Todd Sears
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Abstract
A grain management system can condition a grain mass held in grain storage equipment using environmental inputs, varietal inputs, nutrient inputs, and/or characteristic inputs. The inputs can provide a customized grain conditioning strategy or program to maintain nutritional attributes of the grain mass and/or prevent overdrying, mold, decomposition, or other spoilage of the grain mass. The inputs can be entered by a user or automatically detected or entered based on present or historical data associated with the grain or grain conditioning equipment.
Claims17
A system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored therein, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- receiving data associated with a grain mass;
- receiving a selection of at least one target nutrient characteristic not currently achieved in the grain mass but to be achieved in the grain mass as a result of a grain conditioning operation performed on the grain mass;
- determining, based on the selected at least one target nutrient characteristic and the data associated with the grain mass, a respective grain conditioning operation associated with controlling grain conditioning equipment to achieve the target nutrient characteristic in the grain mass;
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- sending a signal representative of the respective grain conditioning operation to control the grain conditioning equipment based on the signal and for achieving the target nutrient characteristic in the grain mass.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored therein, which when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- receiving humidity data of air within a grain mass;
- receiving a selection of at least one target nutrient characteristic not currently achieved in the grain mass but to be achieved in the grain mass as a result of a grain conditioning operation performed on the grain mass;
- determining, based on the selected at least one target nutrient characteristic and the data associated with the grain mass, a respective grain conditioning operation associated with controlling grain conditioning equipment to achieve the target nutrient characteristic in the grain mass;
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- sending a signal representative of the respective grain conditioning operation to control the grain conditioning equipment based on the signal and for achieving the target nutrient characteristic in the grain mass.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.