Abstract: A drivable soil working device including a machine frame, a drive, at least one support arm which can be moved up and down by the drive and which is mounted on the machine frame in a pivotal manner, and at least one insertion tool which can be pivoted relative to the support arm about a first pivot axis and which can be moved up and down by means of the support arm. The insertion tool can be inserted into the soil and withdrawn.

Abstract: A soil characteristic sensor is mounted on a soil engaging element of a planting machine. It can be mounted, for instance, on an element that engages the soil before a trench is opened, or after a trench is opened, but before it is closed. It can also be mounted on an element that engages the soil in a region of the soil trench, but after the trench is closed. It can be mounted on a scraping element that scrapes a disc, and it can be mounted on wedges or other items that run through the soil, and are carried by shanks.

Abstract: A push-pull cable system including a cable assembly, a stabilizing element, and a guide member. The stabilizing element and guide member may maintain alignment of a wire of the cable assembly as it pushes against a mechanism resistive force that is not aligned with the wire itself. As a result, the cable system may be utilized in applications wherein space constraints prevent alignment of the wire with the resistive force vector of the mechanism.

Abstract: A precision seed-dispensing system of the type applied on planters with a machine element that touches the soil and having a chassis that supports the seed meter. In accordance with the system disclosed herein, it may also have a damper system between the machine element that touches the soil and the seed meter, irrespective of the model or its shape.

Abstract: A seed treater provides enhanced seed coating capabilities and performance. The seed and/or treatment fluid may be heated for improving vaporization and absorption by the seed. Air may be injected in the seed treater to provide heat, dehumidified air, and to provide vaporization enhancement, and component cleaning functions. The functions may be controlled by a control processor based on recipes and may be changed dependent upon sensed or input environmental conditions such as temperature and humidity.

Abstract: A motor drives a seeding system. A sensor senses a characteristic of the motor and a motor jam is detected based on the sensed characteristic. The motor is momentarily reversed, when a jam is detected.

Abstract: A variable is sensed that is indicative of a performance of a machine. A rate of change of the sensed variable is determined, and a control signal is generated for controlling an agricultural vehicle, based upon the rate of change in the value of the sensed variable.

Abstract: A seed boot assembly for a seeding machine includes a seed boot, a boot liner and a seed tube adapter. The seed boot has a seed passage extending from an inlet to an outlet. The boot liner extends within the seed passage between the inlet and the outlet. A seed tube adapter is coupled to the seed boot and/or the boot liner.

Abstract: A method and an assembly of a pre-shaped substrate plug and a container for planting out plant material, of which the plug includes one or more press sections sideways of an upwardly opening plant insertion recess. The outer wall dimensions of the press sections are larger than inner wall dimensions of corresponding parts of the container, such that during a step of placing the plug in an insertion position into the container, a pressing of the plug into the container needs to be performed for the press sections to be able to fit into the corresponding parts of the container while the press sections compress inwardly in a sideways direction and at least partly decrease the plant insertion recess around a seed or lower plant part which had been placed therein preceding the pressing.

Abstract: A robot lawnmower includes a robot body, a drive system, a localizing system, a teach monitor, and a controller in communication with one another. The drive system is configured to maneuver the robot lawnmower over a lawn. The teach monitor determines whether the robot lawnmower is in a teachable state. The controller includes a data processing device and non-transitory memory in communication with the data processing device. The data processing device executes a teach routine when the controller is in a teach mode for tracing a confinement perimeter around the lawn as a human operator pilots the robot lawn mower, when the robot lawnmower is in the teachable state, the teach routine stores global positions determined by the localizing system in the non-transitory memory, and when the robot lawnmower is in the unteachable state, the teach routine issues an indication of the unteachable state.

Abstract: A drive (100) has two gearing arrangements (101, 102) both with a first gearing (103) and a second gearing (104). Each gearing (103, 104) has at least one transfer element (106) for transferring a reciprocating motion of a driving hinge point (107) into a reciprocating motion of an output hinge point (108). Output elements (117) are coupled to the output hinge points (108) of the two gearings (103, 104). A drive element (116) is coupled to the driving hinge points (107). A common drive element (116) is connected to the driving hinge points (107) of the gearings (103, 104) of the two gearing arrangements (101, 102). The gearing arrangements (101, 102) are mirror-symmetrically arranged so that the output elements (117) are driven on a common output axis in an opposed manner with respect to each other.

Abstract: A header for harvesting agricultural crop is designed to be mounted on a harvesting machine and has a support frame with a cutter bar arranged on the front side and blades fastened thereto. Conveying elements for transporting away the cut stalk material include at least two belt conveyors conveying the crop transversely relative to the travel direction and a central belt conveyor as a middle belt that conveys counter to the travel direction. A drive drives the cutter bar and the conveying elements. In order to better protect the middle belt against grain losses over the lateral edge of the revolving belt, the middle belt has, at lateral edges on its outwardly pointing surface, a grain-blocking elevation, respectively.

Abstract: The trimmer head (1) includes: an axis of rotation (A-A); a housing (3); a spool (13) insertable in the housing, configured and arranged to wind a stock of cutting line (F) therearound. The spool includes flanges (13A, 13B), between which anchoring elements (15) extend to anchor the cutting line.

Abstract: A set of sensor inputs are received in an agricultural machine. The sensor inputs are indicative of sensed or measured variables. A probabilistic control system probabilistically infers values for another set of variables and generates a set of control signals based on the probabilistically inferred values.

Abstract: An agricultural vehicle includes a chassis; a crop processing mechanism carried by the chassis and configured to separate crop material and discharge crop residue therefrom; and a residue handling system that receives separated crop material and discharged crop residue from the crop processing mechanism. The residue handling system includes at least one spreader device defining a spreader exit; a windrow exit; a straw door selectively positionable between a first position and a second position, the straw door directed toward the spreader exit in the first position and directed toward the windrow exit in the second position; and a flexible guide associated with the straw door and having a shape that deforms when the straw door switches between the first position and the second position.

Abstract: A crop residue spreader including at least one impeller, at least one radial housing, and at least one blower outlet opening. The at least one radial housing includes a crop residue outlet opening. The at least one impeller is configured to be rotatably driven around a rotation axis such that a crop residue flow is ejected through the crop residue outlet opening of the at least one radial housing, such that the crop residue flow is converted from an incoming crop residue flow into a wider outgoing crop residue flow. The at least one separate blower outlet opening is separate from the crop residue outlet opening of the at least one radial housing. The at least one blower outlet opening is configured to provide an outgoing airflow to accelerate the crop residue flow.

Abstract: A header has frame sections that are joined for articulation with each other. The frame sections each form a partial working width of the header. The frame sections include outer lateral frame sections and a central frame section. A relief element is connected to the central frame section and an outer lateral frame section adjacent to the central frame section. The relief element is adjustable between a springy setting and a locked setting. The relief element has a spring movable in a loading direction and also a spatial body rigid in the loading direction. The spring is connected to the first outer lateral frame section by a bolt guided in a slotted hole of the rigid spatial body. A pivotable stop element with stops is pivotable into a plurality of pivot positions. A spring travel of the spring is adjustable by the stops of the stop element.

Abstract: A deck plate of a corn header row unit capable of reducing grain loss is provided. The deck plate includes forward and rear ends, a top surface, a medial side having a depending portion, and a mounting side opposite the medial side for connecting to a portion of the row unit. Structures are positioned about the top surface spaced from the medial side and configured to inhibit a flow of grain. The structures can be formed as one or more of a variety of shapes that include corrugations, ribs, recesses or protrusions.

Abstract: A system and method of clearing a lump of cut crop material from an internal conveyor of the feeder house of an agricultural combine and an auger conveyor of a belt pickup mounted on the feeder house by ejecting the lump of cut crop material to a position forward of the auger conveyor, then shredding the lump of cut crop material by the auger conveyor and feeding the shredded portions of the lump of cut crop material into the internal conveyor, and then accelerating a belt conveyor on the belt pickup located immediately in front of the auger conveyor to its full harvesting speed.

Abstract: A corn head row unit gearbox includes an input shaft, that rotates about a first axis of rotation and that drives a set of gears. The gears transfer rotation of the input shaft into rotation of a gathering chain output shaft about a second axis of rotation, generally transverse to the first axis of rotation. The gathering chain drive shaft rotates within a bushing mounted within a frame structure of the gearbox. A bushing seal has an annular mounting sleeve with an inner diameter that is press fit over a boss on the frame structure.

Abstract: Rake wheels for raking apparatus for gathering crop material into a windrow are disclosed. In some embodiments, the rake wheel includes disks for securing and limiting circumferential and axial movement of the tines of the rake wheel.

Abstract: A system for harvesting produce from a tree has a drone capable of hovering, a video camera gathering visual data of movement, a cutting implement, a remote control station with a display screen, wireless circuitry, and input mechanisms to control movement of the drone and operation of the cutting implement, and circuitry in the body of the drone enabling two-way communication with the remote control station, transmission of video data from the video camera, and response to commands from the remote control station. The video data from the camera on the drone is displayed on the display screen of the remote control station, and an operator viewing the display screen operates the input mechanisms, maneuvering the drone to position the cutting implement relative to produce in the tree, and triggers the cutting implement by command, severing a stem to separate the produce, causing the produce to fall from the tree.

Abstract: A system for determining knife usage. The system includes an infeed cutter including a cutter rotor, a knife drawer, and a plurality of knives extending through the knife drawer. The cutter rotor is mounted above the knife drawer such that a cutting zone for crop material is defined. The system further includes a measuring device configured to measure a quantity which is representative for the couple exerted by the cutter rotor on crop material going through the cutting zone of the infeed cutter, a controller configured to control the measuring device for measuring values for the quantity at consecutive moments in time, and a knife usage determining module configured to determine knife usage based on the measured values.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide systems for optimizing organism growth, destruction or repair, by controlling the duty cycle, wavelength band and frequency of photon bursts to an organism, through the high frequency modulation of photons in an individual color spectrum to the organism, where the photon modulation is based upon the specific needs of the organism. Devices for the optimization of organism growth, destruction or repair through the high frequency modulation of photons of individual color spectrum to the organism are also provided. Further provided are methods for the optimization of organism growth, destruction or repair through the use of high frequency modulation of photons of individual color spectrums.

Abstract: A portable planter box especially adapted to be usable either in a commercial or residential environment, providing ease of access and internal irrigation. The device is adapted to be utilized in a minimum amount of space, and to be movable from one space to another. The planter box is uniquely designed to permit stacking and may be collapsed to permit ease of storage and transport to multiple locations.

Abstract: A plant tie comprises a plastically deformable elongate body having first and second free ends that are attachable to each other by means of at least one permanent magnet. In some embodiments the plant tie comprises an attachment portion between the free ends, the attachment portion being adapted to attach the plant tie to a cylindrical member.

Abstract: A plant growing apparatus including a chamber for growing plants. The chamber includes a base for receiving the plants, a lid movably mounted in relation to the base having an outer face and an opposite inner face, and a collapsible screen having an inner surface and being mounted between the base and the lid for closing the chamber. The collapsible screen is operable between an extended configuration and a collapsed configuration. The collapsible screen is configured to collapse upon approaching the lid towards the base and to extend, upon distancing the lid away from the base. The plant growing apparatus also includes a horticultural lamp mounted on the inner face of the lid.

Abstract: A disc saw felling head and a method of assembly for the disc saw felling head including a saw mandrel and bearing arrangement. The saw mandrel and bearing arrangement includes a housing, a mandrel, and first and second preset roller bearing packs. One of the roller bearing packs is a tapered roller double-row preset bearing pack and the other of the roller bearing packs is a cylindrical roller single row preset bearing pack. The housing includes a bore and a first and second shelf, wherein each of the shelves defines a depth of the bearings with respect to the housing to accurately locate the mandrel within the housing. The use of preset bearing packs and a housing having predetermined locations for placement of the present bearing packs provides an assembly which requires fewer adjustments.

Abstract: The irrigation system includes a threaded neck, a main chamber, a 360-degree tube coupling, a set of directional flow tubes, a flow tube nozzle adjustment, a chamber pressure control, and a pulse flow control dial. The multi-flow system is useful for providing a direct watering system in a garden will not damage or over-water plants. Further, the system decreases water loss, and helps maintain proper plant health by adding fertilizer to the system if so desired.

Abstract: A pumping device for liquids is described which comprises a tank for liquids, from which a feeding pipe of a pump with a solar panel draws. The tank consists of a supporting frame with tubular uprights and upper and lower horizontal connection lengths, which supports and surrounds a flexible bag for containing liquids and has an upper connection crossbar of the upper horizontal lengths of the supporting frame, on which the pump with solar panel is mounted. The bag has a lower filling hole or mouth, in which the feeding pipe can be inserted and an overflow hole made in the upper of part of its side wall in position lower than said mouth.

Abstract: An integrated irrigation valve control device has a coil adapted to develop an electromagnetic flux sufficient to cause actuation of irrigation equipment. Control circuitry is electrically coupled to the coil to control the flux at the coil. A housing covers at least a portion of the coil and at least a portion of the control circuitry.

Abstract: A system for controlling a moisture content below a surface area, where the system is installable in a recess above which the surface area will be located. The system comprises a substantially water impermeable first layer, a porous second layer and a water control basin which comprises means for controlling a moisture level of the porous second layer. The system enables liquid from the water control basin to be transported through the second layer by utilization of capillary forces, providing for an efficient sub-surface irrigation system which is easy to maintain. A method for providing such an irrigation system is also disclosed.

Abstract: An integrated incubation, cultivation and curing system and controls for optimizing, standardizing and enhancing plant-based medical therapies by controlling and regulating plant growth, development and performance at any stage of a plant's development including propagating, growth, flowering, fruit formation or during processes associated with the handling of the culture through multiple automated, enclosed and controlled environmental systems and thereby standardizing the resultant product.

Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid SV2756TM and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SV2756TM and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH419073. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH419073, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH419073 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH419073.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH438068. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH438068, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH438068 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH438068.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH429191. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH429191, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH429191 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH429191.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH426084. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH426084, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH426084 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH426084.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH432147. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH432147, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH432147 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH432147.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH408969. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH408969, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH408969 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH408969.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH450193. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH450193, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH450193 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH450193.

Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods relating to the elevation of glucoraphanin compared to standard Brassica oleracea varieties. The invention also relates to the production of hybrid varieties having desired glucosinolate contents. The invention further provides plants, plant parts, and seeds comprising such traits and comprising a Myb28 allele from Brassica villosa that is not genetically linked to an ELONG allele from Brassica villosa.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a Lactuca sativa seed designated 79-06 RZ, which exhibits a combination of traits including resistance to downy mildew (Bremia lactucae) races B1:1-31 and Ca-I to Ca-VIII, resistance to currant-lettuce aphid (Nasonovia ribisnigri), resistance to lettuce mosaic virus (LMV), deeply incised leaves with very strong undulation of the apical margin. The present invention also relates to a Lactuca sativa plant produced by growing the 79-06 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the lettuce cultivar, represented by lettuce variety 79-06 RZ.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a Lactuca sativa seed designated 79-58 RZ, which exhibits a combination of traits including resistance to downy mildew (Bremia lactucae) races Bl:1-31 and Ca-I to Ca-VIII and strain F1240, resistance to currant-lettuce aphid (Nasonovia ribisnigri), resistance to lettuce mosaic virus (LMV), intensely red, deeply incised leaves with very strong undulation. The present invention also relates to a Lactuca sativa plant produced by growing the 79-58 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the lettuce cultivar, represented by lettuce variety 79-58 RZ.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a Lactuca sativa seed designated 79-00 RZ, which exhibits a combination of traits including resistance to downy mildew (Bremia lactucae) races Bl:1-31 and Ca-I to Ca-VIII, resistance to currant-lettuce aphid (Nasonovia ribisnigri), resistance to lettuce mosaic virus (LMV), deeply incised leaves with very strong undulation of the apical margin. The present invention also relates to a Lactuca sativa plant produced by growing the 79-00 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the lettuce cultivar, represented by lettuce variety 79-00 RZ.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a Lactuca sativa seed designated 79-66 RZ, which exhibits a combination of traits including resistance to downy mildew (Bremia lactucae) races Bl:1-31 and Ca-I to Ca-VIII, resistance to currant-lettuce aphid (Nasonovia ribisnigri), very intensely red colored, deeply incised, and very glossy leaves, and loose to moderate head firmness. The present invention also relates to a Lactuca sativa plant produced by growing the 79-66 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the lettuce cultivar, represented by lettuce variety 79-66 RZ.

Abstract: A milking device including a base frame, a functional frame coupled to the base frame and configured to move relative to the base frame with a teat detector and at least one milking cup holder with a milking cup to move relative to the milking cup holder. The functional frame can be filled relative to the base frame through an angle around at least one horizontal tilting axis transversely to a connection line between the teat detector and the milking cup holder. There may be two horizontal tilting axes, and consequently the functional frame can be subjected to a combination of a primary tilting movement and a secondary tilting movement. It is then possible to adjust an optimal level for the functional frame, and also an optimal mutual height relation of the teat detector and the milking cup in the milking cup holder.

Abstract: A method for operating a robotic arm, comprises determining a speed of rotation of a rotary milking platform, the rotary milking platform having a stall for a dairy livestock. The method continues by moving a carriage along a track positioned adjacent to the rotary milking platform at a rate that is based at least in part upon the determined speed of rotation of the rotary milking platform, wherein the carriage moves independently of the rotary milking platform and in a direction corresponding to a direction of rotation of the rotary milking platform. The method continues by extending a robotic arm that is coupled to the carriage between the legs of the dairy livestock, wherein the robotic arm remains extended between the legs of the dairy livestock for a period of time as the stall rotates adjacent to the robotic arm. The method concludes by retracting the robotic arm from between the legs of the dairy livestock as the stall rotates adjacent to the robotic arm.

Abstract: A milk tank system includes a first holder configured for intermediate storage of milk from several milkings of a milking device, and not being a milk glass; a second holder for storage of milk from the first holder; a transport device for transporting milk including a milk line from the first holder to the second holder, via which milk line the second holder may be brought into fluidic connection with the first holder, and a shut-off for shutting off the fluidic connection, in particular from the first holder to the milk line, wherein the transport device has a first operating state which is configured for collecting milk in the first holder, and a second operating state which is configured for transferring the milk from the first holder to the second holder, wherein the milk tank system further includes a control system for switching the transport device from the first to the second operating state when the milk in the first holder reaches a switching milk level which changes over time.

Abstract: In order to provide a feed mixture, a feed mixer is proposed which has a container. The container has a bottom and a wall which is connected to the bottom and delimits a filling opening, the area of which is greater than the area of the bottom. A rotatable auger is provided which can be rotated about an axis, the axis running substantially perpendicularly with respect to the bottom. The feed mixer has a pivoting device which is intended and suitable for pivoting the container during a mixing operation, in particular after a predefined time period or after a predefined number of revolutions of the at least one auger. No new matter is added.