Methods, apparatus and systems for generating, updating and executing a crop-harvesting plan
OwnerJerome Dale Johnsoninventor
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Abstract
Crop-harvesting plans automatically generated based on crop-harvesting information received from a variety of sources, such as a user, remote sensor, database, data feed and/or a social network. The crop-harvesting plans may dynamically aid farmers and other production agriculture professionals when determining a crop-harvesting plan and then implementing that crop-harvesting plan. Crop-harvesting plans may include a variety of recommended crop-harvesting practices, logistics, sequences and projected outcomes for the implementation of the recommended crop-harvesting plan.
Claims30
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a crop-harvesting plan generator, information regarding harvesting crops from at least one of a user, a manager, a database, a data feed, and a remote sensor via a communication network;
- automatically generating, by the crop-harvesting plan generator, one or more crop-harvesting plans for harvesting crops in one or more fields based upon the received information;
- automatically evaluating, by the crop-harvesting plan generator, one or more crop-harvesting plans according to one or more criterion;
- selecting, by the crop-harvesting plan generator, a crop-harvesting plan responsively to the evaluation;
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- providing, by the crop-harvesting plan generator, the crop-harvesting plan to the user via the communication network.
A system comprising:
- a crop-harvesting plan generator configured to receive information regarding crop-harvesting from at least one of a user, a manager, a data feed, a database, a social network and a remote sensor, automatically generate one or more crop-harvesting plans for harvesting a crop in a field based upon the received information, evaluate the crop-harvesting plans according to one or more criterion, select a crop-harvesting plan responsively to the evaluation, and provide the selected crop-harvesting plan to a user interface via a communication network;
- the user interface configured to receive the selected crop-harvesting plan from the crop-harvesting plan generator via the communication network, provide the selected crop-harvesting plan to the user, receive the information regarding crop-harvesting from the user, and provide the received information regarding crop-harvesting to the crop-harvesting plan generator;
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- the communication network configured to enable communication between the crop-harvesting plan generator and the user interface.
A tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media including a set of instructions stored thereon which when executed by a computer enable the computer to receive information regarding crop-harvesting from at least one of a user, a manager, a database, a data feed, and a remote sensor via a communication network, generate a plurality of crop-harvesting plans for harvesting seeds based upon the received information, evaluate the plurality of crop-harvesting plans according to one or more criterion, select a crop-harvesting plan responsively to the evaluation, and provide the crop-harvesting plan to the user via the communication network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.