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US 2026/0041034 A1Published application
Residue spread control
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsNathan R. Vandike, Noel W. Anderson
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Abstract
A method of controlling a harvester includes obtaining a wind direction, identifying harvest coverage data for a field indicative of an unharvested location in the field, and, based on the wind direction and the harvest coverage data, controlling the harvester to direct residue to one or more areas of the field that have been harvested.
Claims20
A method of controlling a harvester, the method comprising:
- obtaining a wind direction;
- obtaining field data for a field indicative of an unharvested location in the field;
- and
- based on the wind direction and the field data, controlling the harvester to direct residue to one or more areas of the field that have been harvested.
1 more element
An agricultural system comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- memory storing instructions executable by the at least one processor, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the agricultural system to:
- obtain a wind direction;
- obtain field data for a field indicative of an unharvested location in the field;
- and
- based on the wind direction and the field data, control a harvester to direct residue to one or more areas of the field that have been harvested.
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A method of controlling a mobile agricultural machine that performs an agricultural operation on a field, the method comprising:
- receiving an indication of a wind direction;
- identifying coverage data indicative of one or more unworked areas of the field;
- identifying one or more target areas of the field based on the one or more unworked areas of the field;
- and
- controlling the mobile agricultural machine based on the wind direction to direct material, generated by traversal of the mobile agricultural machine over the field, to the one or more target areas of the field, the material comprising at least one of residue or dust.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.