Method and system for closed loop material application to plants
OwnerBrian J. Gilmore, Robert L. Mayfield +1inventors
InventorsBrian J. Gilmore, Robert L. Mayfield, Niels Dybro
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Abstract
A method of controlling material applications to plants. The method includes the steps of tracking and modifying. The tracking steps include tracking at least one of a location, a type, an age, and a yield of at least some of the plants including a first plant. The modifying step includes modifying a material application, material application device. The material being directed to the first plant being dependent upon at least one of the location, the type, and the age, and the yield of the first plant.
Claims20
A method of controlling material applications to plants, the method including the steps of:
- tracking at least one of a location, a type, an age and a yield of at least some of the plants including a first plant;
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- modifying a material application from a material application device, said material application being directed to the first plant dependent upon at least one of said location, said type, said age and said yield of the first plant.
A material application system for application of material to plants, comprising:
- a material application device having a variable material delivery mechanism;
- a Global Positioning System (GPS) associated with said material application device, said GPS producing a signal representative of a location of said material application device;
- a computer;
- a memory device in communication with said computer, said memory device containing data relating to at least one of a location, a type, an age and a yield of at least some of the plants including a first plant, said material application device using said data along with said signal from said GPS to modify a material application being directed to the first plant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.