US 12,004,444 B2 · Predictive agricultural management system and method

Abstract

Systems and methods for predictive management of plants. Agricultural (and natural resource) managers may have a multitude of data sets and data sources available, but often lack a meaningful or proven way to assimilate all available data and then conclusively select actions. For example, a vineyard manager may be able to collect data about local and regional weather, precipitation, disease prevalence, insect prevalence, pesticide use, crop varietal, cover crop selection and many other inputs to a predictive machine-learning vineyard management engine. As all this data is collected through local devices and third-party services, a prediction model may be used to determine specific outcomes or recommended actions based on the trained predictive model. For example, the model may be used to predict optimal harvest date, disease spread and vector spread, pest spread and impact, best pesticide use, irrigation plans, fruit quality, and the like.

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A computer-implemented method for training a predictive model for crop management comprising:

collecting a first data set about at least one global agricultural factor from a remote data collection service;
collecting a second data set about at least one local agricultural factor from a local data collection device;
assimilating the first and second data sets into a local database to create a first training data set comprising the collected first set of data and the collected second set of data;
training a predictive model using the first training data set to produce one or more measurable outcomes for the crop;
collecting a third data set about at least one global vineyard factor from the remote data collection service;
collecting a fourth data set about at least one local vineyard factor from the local data collection device;
and
predicting a measurable crop outcome using the trained predictive model in response to the collected third data set and the collected fourth data set.

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