Agricultural devices, systems, and methods for determining soil and seed characteristics and analyzing the same
AssigneeKinze Manufacturing, Inc.
InventorsLAURA B. BLOMME, COURTNEY N. ACHEN
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Abstract
Agricultural seed planting systems include a processing unit, a frame, a furrow opener coupled to the frame for opening a furrow in soil, and a sensor in communication with the processing unit and adapted to sense a characteristic associated with seed planting. The sensor may generate a signal associated with the sensed characteristic and the processing unit may receive the signal. In some aspects, the sensed characteristic may be either a soil characteristic or a seed characteristic. Information associated with the sensed characteristic can be saved in memory for future use and to assist with more effective planting in the future.
Claims17
A method of monitoring a furrow in soil with an agricultural planter, the method comprising:
- sensing one or more soil characteristics associated with seed planting with an electronic sensor;
- generating a signal associated with the one or more sensed soil characteristics;
- communicating the signal associated with the one or more sensed soil characteristics to a processing unit of a user interface, wherein the one or more sensed soil characteristics are displayed on the user interface;
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- wherein the user interface is configured to display the sensed soil characteristics comprising at least soil temperature and soil moisture content.
A monitoring system for use in agriculture, comprising:
- at least one electronic sensor capable of sensing one or more soil characteristics associated with planting;
- a user interface in communication with the at least one electronic sensor, said user interface comprising a display and a memory;
- wherein the user interface displays and stores a GPS position and the one or more sensed characteristics for use in planting;
- wherein the one or more sensed soil characteristics comprises at least both soil temperature and soil moisture content that is displayable on the user interface.
A control and monitoring system for an agricultural planting system, the control and monitoring system, comprising:
- a processing unit;
- a user interface in communication with the processing unit, the user interface adapted to display information associated with one or more sensed soil characteristics;
- wherein the user interface is configurable to display one or more sensed soil characteristics within the furrow created by a furrow opener associated with one row unit of a plurality of row units, and wherein the one or more sensed soil characteristics comprises both a soil temperature and a soil moisture content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.