Abstract: The multi-purpose weeding device allows weeding of gardens, flower beds, lawns, and other agricultural and landscaped areas from an upright standing position is presented. The device provides for a linear handle, here shown in a collapsed or retracted state. The overall length of the handle in its retracted state is approximately three feet (3 ft.) long. The upper handle segment is provided with an ergonomic hand grip, such as a rubber hand grip, with an overall approximate length of eight inches (8 in.). The lower handle segment is provided with a single tine head consisting of a ninety-degree (90°) member equipped with a pointed tine.

Abstract: An agricultural implement (1) for soil working, comprising a frame (10, 101, 10a, 10b, 10c, 10d, 10e), a number of ground-engaging tools (12, 13) carried by the frame, at least one rolling ground support (11a, 11b), the height position of which is adjustable relative to the frame, a height sensor (31) for contact-free measuring of the height position of the frame relative to a ground surface (G1), and a control unit (15), arranged to receive a signal from the height sensor (31) and to control the height position of the rolling ground support (11a, 11b). At least one of the tools (12, 13) is resilient relative to the frame (10, 101, 10a, 10b, 10c, 10d, 10e). A tool position sensor (32) is arranged to measure the orientation of the tool (12, 13), and the control unit (15) is arranged to receive a signal from the tool position sensor (32) and to calculate a work depth for said tool (12, 13) based on the signal from the height sensor (31) and based on the signal from the tool position sensor (32).

Abstract: An apparatus for managing agricultural crops includes a vehicle and a user interface. The vehicle includes a navigation system, one or more vision systems, one or more removal tools, and a control system. The control system can include a data processing system, a data storage system, and a targeting system. The apparatus can be used to carry out one or more methods for managing agricultural crops, such as, for example, utilizing the vision system to capture images of an item to be targeted for removal by the removal tool, and utilizing the control system to process the images and position the removal tool to remove the item.

Abstract: A method is for estimating a course of a plant row in a field while the field is being crossed in a direction of travel substantially parallel to the plant row. The method includes capturing a plurality of images of the field substantially in sync with obtaining position information relating to a position in which the individual images are captured on the field. The method also includes classifying pixels or regions in the individual images as crop plants; arranging the classified images in a global context using the obtained position information; and estimating the course of the plant row by determining a probability distribution of the pixels or regions classified as crop plants in the global context along a direction perpendicular to the direction of travel.

Abstract: An object detection system for an agricultural machine which utilises image data from one or more imaging sensors associated with the agricultural machine. The image data is analysed utilising first and second detection models to classify, for one or both models, an object within the environment of the agricultural machine. A classification metric for the object indicative of an overlap associated with the classification obtained for each of the models for the object is used in determining an identity for the object. One or more operable components associated with the agricultural machine may then be controlled in dependence on the determined identity.

Abstract: A steering system includes a controller. The controller is configured to: enter a turn mode; determine respective, different rotation speeds of steerable wheels to turn the vehicle and reach a defined second position from a first position; output respective rotation speed signals to drivers to rotate the respective wheels at the determined respective rotation speeds in the turn mode; and determine the vehicle has reached the defined second position based at least partially on the rotation speeds and responsively exit the turn mode.

Abstract: A support system for a working vehicle includes a working vehicle including a vehicle body to travel selectively under manual steering or automatic steering, a controller, and a communicator, the controller is configured or programmed to define a planned travel line for and control the automatic steering based on a reference line, the communicator receiving a replacement line for replacing the reference line, and a server to transmit the replacement line to the communicator. The controller includes a status acquirer to acquire a status of a device provided in or on the working vehicle, and is configured or programmed to, in accordance with the status acquired by the status acquirer, switch between a first mode in which the controller replaces the reference line with the replacement line transmitted from the server and a second mode in which the controller does not replace the reference line with the replacement line.

Abstract: Described herein is a novel farming machine settings database as well as technologies for generating and updating the database using computing schemes such as schemes including artificial neural networks (ANNs) or, more specifically, convolutional neural networks (CNNs).

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for guiding an agricultural machine utilising image data received from one or more imaging sensors associated with the agricultural machine. The image data is analysed utilising a detection model to classify at least one object within the environment of the agricultural machine and the classification is used to identify a cooperative machine for performing a cooperative operational task with the agricultural machine. The systems extend to controlling operation of the guidance system in dependence on the identified cooperative machine.

Abstract: A method of calibrating a metering system having a plurality of meter modules. Each of the meter modules includes an auger in communication with a product, the auger is driven by an electric motor. The method includes loading the auger with the product, discharging a metered quantity of the product from the auger by actuating the electric motor to drive the auger at a predetermined rotational speed for a predetermined number of auger revolutions. The discharged metered quantity of the product is captured with the capture structure. A load cell generates a signal magnitude correlating a known mass to obtain a derived mass value. A controller calculates a mass per auger revolution (MPR) value. The MPR values of each of the plurality of meter modules is summed and stored in memory. A derived application rate is calculated and compared to the derived application rate.

Abstract: A system is provided for measuring soil properties. The system includes at least one sensor coupled to a row unit of an agricultural implement and a camera coupled to the row unit of the agricultural implement. The at least one sensor is configured to measure at least one soil property of soil worked by the row unit and/or of soil in a trench opened by an opening assembly of the row unit. And, the camera is arranged, on the row unit, to capture images of the soil worked by the row unit and/or the trench opened by the opening assembly of the row unit.

Abstract: A system for automatically controlling fertilizer application during the performance of a planting operation includes a row unit of a planting implement, the row unit being configured to deposit seeds within soil and having a fertilizer applicator configured to selectively dispense fertilizer. The system further includes a first sensor that generates first data indicative of a first nutrient-related parameter(s) within a field, and a second sensor supported on the planting implement that generates second data indicative of a second nutrient-related parameter(s) within the field, rearward of the row unit. A computing system determines an initial amount of the nutrient(s) within the field based on the first data, controls an operation of the fertilizer applicator to dispense the fertilizer onto the field, and determines an updated amount of the nutrient(s) within the field based on the second data.

Abstract: A lawnmower comprising: a body; a cutting element coupled with the body; a motor configured to drive the cutting element; a sensor comprising an accelerometer configured to detect an angular displacement of the lawnmower with respect to a vertical axis and a wobble of the cutting element with respect to a horizontal plane; and a processor configured to: compare the detected angular displacement against a tilt threshold value; compare the detected wobble against a wobble threshold value; and control an operational speed of the cutting element when the angular displacement exceeds the tilt threshold value or when the wobble exceeds the wobble threshold value.

Abstract: An assembly includes a mowing head (3), an output shaft (8), and a fastening device (10). The output shaft (8) is drivable in rotation about an axis of rotation (9). The assembly (2) has an anti-rotation lock (11) and an axial lock (16). The mowing head (3) is held corotatingly on the output shaft (8) by the anti-rotation lock (11). The axial lock (16) locks the mowing head (3) in a blocking position (30) of the output shaft (8) against a relative movement in the direction of the axis of rotation (9) of the output shaft (8) and in an inoperative position (31) releases the mowing head (3) for detachment from the output shaft (8). The fastening device (10) includes an actuating element (24) accessible to the operator. The axial lock (16) is switchable into the blocking position (30) and into the inoperative position (31) by the actuating element (24).

Abstract: A combine is a combine in which an engine is arranged at a front portion of a traveling machine body. The combine includes a cooling device that cools the engine, and an electric controller that controls operation of the combine is arranged on one side surface of the cooling device.

Abstract: A traveling processor causes a combine to perform an autonomous travel following a target route including a turning route in a field. An acquisition processor acquires a distance from a turning center point of the turning route to an edge of the field. A setting processor sets a speed of the combine on a turning route where the distance from the turning center point to the edge of the field is not more than a predetermined distance to a predetermined speed smaller than a speed of the combine on a turning route where the distance from the turning center point to the edge of the field exceeds the predetermined distance.

Abstract: A cutter bar assembly for an agricultural vehicle header includes a cutter bar supported by movable arms extending from a header frame and capable of operation in flex and rigid modes. The support arms are joined to the header frame such that they may be displaced from a raised position in the rigid mode when subjected to a lifting force due to striking an obstacle without damage to the header structure. Also, an agricultural vehicle header and an agricultural combine harvester includes the cutter bar assembly.

Abstract: A header for an agricultural harvester includes: a header frame; a plurality of cutters carried by the header frame and configured to sever crop material; a draper belt carried by the header frame rearwardly of the cutters and configured to travel in a travel direction; at least one crop ramp associated with at least one of the cutters, the at least one crop ramp including a front edge disposed in front of the draper belt and a rear edge that overlaps the draper belt; and a seed saver that is associated with the draper belt and defines a length extending in the travel direction. The seed saver extends above the draper belt and is disposed rearwardly of the rear edge of the at least one crop ramp.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a ground inclination stereo profiling apparatus and method for a mechanical weeding component, and relates to the field of green agriculture. The ground inclination stereo profiling apparatus for the mechanical weeding component includes a rack assembly, an operation depth and inclination intelligent perception and feedback system, a hydraulic depth adjusting system and a control assembly.

Abstract: An agricultural machine system includes: a mower-conditioner machine including a plurality of conditioner rolls; a control system operatively coupled with the mower-conditioner machine, the control system including: a controller system configured for: determining a conditioner speed adjustment, as an independent parameter, based at least in part on a ground speed of the mower-conditioner machine.

Abstract: A baler implement includes a print system selectively configurable to print a plurality of available alpha-numeric characters on the bale. A marker controller is operable to receive data from a sensor related to a characteristic of the bale and then select a desired alpha-numeric character from the available alpha-numeric characters based on the data from the sensor. The marker controller may then configure the print system to select the desired alpha-numeric character, and actuate the print system to imprint the desired alpha-numeric character onto the bale, thereby marking the bale with the desired alpha-numeric character to communicate the characteristic of the bale.

Abstract: A wrapping assembly for an agricultural baler includes: a supply of wrapping material; a wrapping mechanism configured to wrap the wrapping material around a formed round bale; a protrusion inserter configured to insert a roll-reducing protrusion on a surface of the formed round bale; and a controller operably coupled to the wrapping mechanism and the protrusion inserter. The controller is configured to: output a wrap initiation signal to the wrapping mechanism so the wrapping mechanism begins wrapping the formed round bale; and output a protrusion insertion signal to the protrusion inserter so the roll-reducing protrusion is inserted on a surface of the formed round bale and is subsequently wrapped by wrapping material wrapped around the formed round bale by the wrapping mechanism.

Abstract: An expandable and collapsible grain bin is provided, comprising: two telescoping cylindrical sections, an upper bin section and a lower bin section, the two telescoping cylindrical sections adapted to automatically interlock with one another when the grain bin is in an expanded position; a first lifting system for lifting the upper bin section until the upper bin section automatically interlocks with the lower bin section and lowering the upper bin section when collapsing the grain bin for storage or transport; and a bin cover attached at or near the top of the upper bin section for enclosing the grain bin.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a signal generator based on inductance characteristics of an element, an electric shearing tool, and a shear opening degree control method for an electric shearing tool, and relates to the technical field of electric shearing tools. A changeable inductance value of an inductance type transducer is obtained through a change in a relative position between a triggering member and the inductance type transducer. The inductance value is increased or decreased linearly, so that a control processor can precisely obtain relative position information between the triggering member and the inductance type transducer according to linear changes of the inductance value, thereby obtaining position information of a blade travel control member. Each position point can be mapped to current positions of blades.

Abstract: Methods and systems for generating a plasma-activated liquid or gas, and applying the plasma-activated liquid for agricultural use. A system embodiment includes a hand-held device that can be pointed and directed at different target areas of a plant. A method embodiment includes generating a plasma discharge in a gas environment or a liquid environment, and applying the gas/liquid to a plant.

Abstract: The invention concerns a horticulture master lighting device (11) comprises a light source and a processor configured to determine one or more horticulture master light settings and control the light source to render horticulture master light based on the one or more horticulture master light settings. The horticulture master light illuminates a plant (3) from a first position and further comprises a modulated light communication signal. The invention further concerns a horticulture slave lighting device (21) comprises a light sensor, a light source, and a processor configured to receive, via the light sensor, the horticulture master light from the horticulture master lighting device, determine one or more horticulture slave light settings based on the modulated light communication signal, and control the light source to render horticulture slave light based on the one or more horticulture slave light settings. The horticulture slave light illuminates the plant from a second position.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides advantageous lighting systems that can be installed on parallel rows of horizontal supports. The lighting systems can be configured to have a single electrical feedthrough on one end of the lamp that can also act as a mating feature between the lamp and supports. More particularly, the present disclosure provides improved lighting systems that are fixtureless, waterproof, customizable, and easy to install/remove.

Abstract: A farming machine is configured to autonomously operate in a field to accomplish a farming objective. While doing so the farming machine can dynamically modify treatment plans and/or generate experimental treatment plans. Dynamically modifying treatment plans includes modifying, delaying, accelerating, adding, and/or removing farming actions in a treatment plan. Generating an experimental treatment plan includes intentionally modifying a treatment plan to induce a variance in a result, measuring the result, and determining whether the result from the experimental treatment plan is better than the unmodified treatment plan. The farming machine is also configured to generate user interactable feedback, and receive user generated instruction, to dynamically modify treatment plans and/or generate experimental treatment plans.

Abstract: A planter system including a base container and a transparent water evacuation tube located at a bottom portion of the base container. The transparent water evacuation tube is movable from a position pointing up holding water in the base container and a position pointing down to drain water from the base container. A platform/transplanter insert is located in the base container and has handles that extend upward. The handles are shaped to provide a passage to allow for feeding, watering and aeration.

Abstract: A system for packaging growth medium pots onto propagation trays is provided. The system includes an apparatus adapted for producing a length of growth medium cut into growth medium pots of suitable size; and a distributor apparatus adapted for positioning growth medium pots into a propagation tray or the like. The distributor apparatus comprises a) a first apparatus, b) a conveyor unit, and c) a second apparatus. The first apparatus is configured for positioning growth medium pots onto said conveyor unit. The conveyor unit comprises an endless conveyor belt adapted for transporting the growth medium pots toward the second apparatus. The second apparatus is configured for moving said growth medium pots positioned on the said conveyor belt into a propagation tray or the like.

Abstract: An apparatus for cultivating plants may include a cabinet having an interior space, a door to open or close the interior space, at least one bed provided in the interior space and used to cultivate the plants, at least one light assembly to irradiate the at least one bed with light for photosynthesis, a water tank to store water to be supplied to the at least one bed, and a machine compartment provided at a lower portion of the cabinet, and separated from the interior space to communicate with an ambient surrounding, a compressor and a condenser being provided in the machine room to adjust a temperature of the interior space. The water tank may be provided inside the interior space spaced apart from the machine compartment.

Abstract: A system for growing plants and monitoring the growth of plants, comprising a gardening system and a server. The gardening system comprises a frame that defines a housing for receiving a tray of plants. The gardening system also has a lighting subsystem and watering subsystem to provide light and water to the plants. Sensors and cameras of the gardening system may capture data corresponding to the conditions of the gardening system and health of the plant. Based on the captured data, the server may use machine learning to determine optimal plant growing thresholds, and may send a control command to a controller of the gardening system to change one or more conditions of the gardening system. The plants grown by the system may be nutritious, and the bioavailability of the nutrients of the plants may be increased.

Abstract: A planter edging system comprising a set of edging panels arranged for end-to-end engagement to form at least part of a boundary of a planting area. Each edging panel comprises: a planter wall having an inner surface exposed to contents of the planting area, in use, the inner surface having a pair of longitudinal edges connected by side edges; and a respective end flange extending along each side edge of the inner surface of the planter wall, each end flange defining an outwardly-directed mating face arranged to engage a corresponding mating face of an adjacent edging panel, each mating face including multiple locking apertures.

Abstract: The present invention is a shade apparatus with central hub and shade components.

Abstract: Arrangement of a closed greenhouse (10) with optimised temperature control, including at least one module (10-1 to 10-n), comprising a framework and a peripheral film so as to constitute an enclosed space, comprising a front wall (16), a rear wall (18) and two side walls, left (20) and right (22) as well as a roof (24) with à ridge, as well as at least one access opening with an airlock, at least one evaporating panel (26) for water diffusion, a water supply circuit (32) and at least one interior air extractor (34), characterized in that said at least one interior air extractor (34) is disposed in the immediate vicinity of the ridge of the roof (24)

Abstract: A device and method for controlling the opening of a work apparatus having pairwise arranged processing devices for viticulture. The work apparatus is attached to a work vehicle and comprises at least one piece of holding equipment which reaches over a row of plants and on which at least one of the processing devices is held. At least one processing device (is arranged on each side of the row. A clear opening is able to be established between the processing devices and/or is able to be changed in terms of an opening width and/or an opening length by at least one actuator. At least one image recording is generated by at least one electronic camera at least for at least one field of view.

Abstract: A sprinkler comprises a sprinkler head (102) and a sprinkler base (101). The sprinkler base comprises a hollow body having an inlet (104) and a first outlet (105). The first outlet (105) is in fluid communication with the inlet (104). The inlet (104) has an inlet axial orientation which is substantially perpendicular to a first outlet axial orientation of the first outlet (105), which is perpendicular to the inlet axial orientation. The sprinkler base (101) further comprises two or more sprinkler head protection elements (115) located onopposite sides of the first outlet and extending beyond the first outlet in the direction of the first outlet axial orientation.

Abstract: In the examples described herein, a portable watering apparatus includes a reservoir with at least one transparent sidewall having volume dispensing measuring indicia. A spout is connected at or near the bottom of reservoir. When the apparatus is tilted to a watering angle, liquid flows from the reservoir through the spout to exit the apparatus. The indica allows the user to determine the remaining volume of liquid in the reservoir while the apparatus is positioned at the watering angle. As the liquid flows, the volume of liquid dispensed can be determined by observing the change in liquid level relative to the indicia.

Abstract: A turf management system includes an irrigation system for providing water to the turf at a turf site, and an irrigation evaluation system for evaluating the performance of the irrigation system. The irrigation evaluation system segments the turf site into irrigation management units, where each of the irrigation management units includes at least one sprinkler head. Qualities of the turf are measured to generate collected data points. The data points are used by the irrigation evaluation system to compute a value for the turf in each of the irrigation management units. The values can then be used to identify irrigation management units having common characteristics. The values can be used to define irrigation management zones for controlling the irrigation system.

Abstract: Systems, user interfaces, and methods related to irrigation control systems are provided herein. In some embodiments, an irrigation control system includes an irrigation management application which, when executed by an electronic device, causes a user interface to be displayed to a user. The user interface includes features that permit a user to do one or more of configure, monitor, program, control, adjust various components and/or operations of the irrigation management system.

Abstract: A growing apparatus for plants, the growing apparatus including a planting side; a harvesting side; a flexible conveyor belt including cutouts that transports the plants in the cutouts along a conveying path from the planting side to the harvesting side; a nutrition device that feeds a liquid nutrition medium for the plants to a root side of the flexible conveyor belt so that the plants root at the root side and sprout at an illuminated sprout side of the conveyor belt that is arranged opposite to the root side, wherein the flexible conveyor belt is folded into creases at the planting side wherein the creases extend in a direction transversal to the conveying path, wherein the creases are moved from the planting side to the harvesting side and thus straightened and leveled along the conveying path, wherein the cutouts are respectively arranged on ridge lines of the creases.

Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for monitoring and improving water quality to mitigate eutrophication or harmful algal blooms using smart rafts, including a raft made from a mycomaterial; one or more tube-shaped pods formed in the raft and configured to hold seed or media and configured with a root channel at the bottom of the pods extending through a bottom of the raft; and a sensor holder formed in the raft and configured to hold a water quality sensor accessing a water channel extending through a bottom of the raft. Remedial plants are grown in the tube-shaped pods with roots of the remedial plants passing through the water channel into water underneath the raft.

Abstract: Cucumber plants exhibiting resistance to Cucumber Mosaic Virus (CMV) are provided, together with methods of producing, identifying, or selecting plants or germplasm with a Cucumber Mosaic Virus resistance phenotype. Such methods include producing a cucumber plant exhibiting resistance to CMV, comprising introgressing genomic regions conferring disease resistance; or selecting a cucumber plant exhibiting resistance to CMV. Compositions, including polymorphic markers for detecting plants comprising introgressed disease resistance alleles, are further provided.

Abstract: Methods and devices for in vitro shoot growth, cutting shoots, root growth and formation of a stably growing and robust complete plants utilizing liquid culture medium and subsequently transfer to ex vitro conditions by a robotic device or other automated means are disclosed. It may comprise a temporary-immersion bioreactor system, in vitro fixtures for shoots, a holder for shoot fixtures, a cutting device and a rooting tube.

Abstract: A tissue culture method and a propagation method of Cathaya argyrophylla are described herein. An adventitious bud can be induced from an explant of the Cathaya argyrophylla using a suitable induction medium, with an induction rate reaching 69.22% to 73.33%. The induced adventitious bud is inoculated into a suitable proliferation medium, such that the adventitious bud can proliferate and strengthen seedlings, where the adventitious bud shows a proliferation rate reaching 46.23% to 55%. The adventitious bud after proliferation and seedling strengthening are inoculated into a suitable rooting medium to allow rooting culture, thereby obtaining a complete tissue culture seedling of the Cathaya argyrophylla. The tissue culture method is of great significance for protecting the Cathaya argyrophylla, increasing a plant quantity of the Cathaya argyrophylla, and expanding a population of the Cathaya argyrophylla to prevent extinction.

Abstract: Provided herein are spinach plants resistant to Peronospora farinosa and Stemphylium vesicarium, and spinach plants additionally resistant to Cucumber Mosaic Virus (CMV). Also provided herein are genomic fragments providing the present resistances and use thereof for identifying spinach resistant to Peronospora farinosa and Stemphylium vesicarium, and spinach plants additionally resistant to Cucumber Mosaic Virus (CMV). Provided herein are a spinach plant resistant to Peronospora farinosa and Stemphylium vesicarium: including a genomic fragment of Spinacia tetrandra located on chromosome 4 between positions 8255074 and 8620598 of the spinach reference genome, the genomic fragment of Spinacia tetrandra lacking a lethal factor and providing Peronospora farinosa resistance and including a genomic fragment located on chromosome 3 and between positions 1177586 and 1271037 of the spinach reference genome providing Stemphylium vesicarium resistance.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to seedless fruit producing watermelon. The present invention also comprises methods for production of said plants and methods for producing seedless watermelon.

Abstract: A new and distinct plant of variety NUN 13010 CUL is disclosed as well as seeds and plants and fruits thereof. NUN 13010 CUL is a Dutch long cucumber variety comprising high resistance to Podosphaera xanthii and Cucumber Green Mottle Mosaic Virus (CGMMV).

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for treating rice. The method comprises the steps of: providing a domestic rice crop plant and at least one ACCase-inhibiting aryloxyphenoxypropanoate herbicide selected from the group consisting of quizalofop or an ester thereof, haloxyfop, fluazifop or an ester thereof, clodinafop, clodinafop-propargyl, diclofop, and diclofop-methyl; applying an effective amount (measured in g AI/Ha) of the at least one aryloxyphenoxypropanoate herbicide to the domestic rice crop plant, post-emergence; thereby creating a treated rice plant; and growing the resulting treated rice plant.

Abstract: A novel maize variety designated 1PGDG86 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 1PGDG86 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 1PGDG86 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety 1PGDG86 or a locus conversion of 1PGDG86 with another maize variety.