Abstract: Proposed is a soil tilling apparatus (1) having a combing or leveling device (4) mounted in front thereof, wherein, when the tool intensity of the combing or leveling device (4) is adjusted, at the same time in the driving direction a change in the distance between the tool supports to each other or to the trailing soil tilling tools (3) is brought about in a simple manner.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for coating plant seed, to a seed coating composition, to a coated plant seed, to a use of one or more water-insoluble polymers with a Tg of at least 35° C., to a method of preparing a seed coating composition, to a method of preparing coated seed, to coated seed, to a use of an abrasive material primer or plasma, and to an apparatus for coating of seed. The method for coating plant seed comprises applying to the seed a seed coating composition comprising one or more water-insoluble polymers with a Tg of at least 35° C.

Abstract: A row unit of an agricultural planter includes a seed meter. The seed meter includes first and second disks within a seed meter housing. The first and second seed disks are positioned in the seed meter housing such that the disks rotate in the same rotation direction and include a common seed release point. A single drive member is operatively connected to both the first and second seed disks such that the drive member selectively rotates one or both of the first or second seed disks at a time. The seed disks may be angularly positioned and conical-shaped member with a central axis and comprising seed cells radially positioned about an outer portion and being substantially non-perpendicular to the central axis. An air pressure source also is included to adhere seed to the disks.

Abstract: A row crop planter has a pneumatic system for conveying seeds to individual row units employing three-way splitters above certain master row units for supplying seed to each master row unit and a pair of associated slave row units. Each three-row splitter has an upper inlet chamber of annular shape with an offset inlet coupled to a conveying hose for receiving an air entrained seed flow, and an annular passageway extending downwardly from the inlet chamber to an outlet for delivering seeds to the master unit below. A pair of laterally extending slave outlet conduits extend obliquely upward and each has a jumper hose connecting with an adjacent slave unit. The flow circulating within the annular region allows seeds to fall downwardly and air to spiral upwardly into a supplemental air conduit. An air bypass passageway conveys air flow from the supplemental air conduit toward the slave outlet conduits.

Abstract: A method and system utilizing one or more agricultural drones to improve the monitoring, measuring and mapping of a field in order to produce contour maps that will be used in working a field, in particular, controlling a direction of tillage and/or controlling the spreading of matter (e.g., fertilizer, manure or sewage treatment sludge) across the field while preventing undue erosion and/or runoff.

Abstract: A method for creating a visualization of a parcel or garden may include receiving information indicative of position data of a robotic vehicle transiting a parcel and corresponding image data captured by the robotic vehicle at one or more locations on the parcel. The method may further include generating a model of the parcel based on the information received, providing a graphical representation of the parcel based on the model, and enabling an operator to interact with the graphical representation to view one or more content items associated with respective ones of the one or more locations.

Abstract: An autonomous implement includes at least one orientation device configured to provide an orientation within a processing zone. The at least one orientation device is different from a perimeter-wire orientation device. The autonomous implement further includes at least one control and/or regulating unit configured to ascertain a travel strategy. The at least one control and/or regulating unit is configured at least to ascertain an alignment relative to a base station for a targeted docking onto an interface of the base station based on at least one orientation parameter captured using the at least one orientation device.

Abstract: A sickle cutting system is mounted on a header for forward travel over ground having a standing crop thereon and includes a cutter bar with a plurality of knife guards and at least one sickle bar with a drive system for driving the sickle bar through repeated cycles of reciprocating movement from start-up of the system through to a shut-down. The drive system includes an arrangement to halt the sickle bar on shut-down at a predetermined position of the knife blades relative to the knife guards and preferably the position where the blades lie intermediate two knife guards. The system can be halted by either a physical stop member at the required position or by detecting the position of the sickle bar during operation and causing it to halt the required position. The detection can be carried out by counting pulses generated by markers on a rotary member of the drive system.

Abstract: A vegetation chopping roller for an agricultural land roller implement including a drum body having an outer periphery which is generally cylindrical about a drum axis of rotation and a plurality of protruding mounting flanges upon which chopping blades are mounted using threaded fasteners. A seating surface is fixedly supported in relation to the drum body in association with each blade which receives the inner edge of the associated blade abutted thereon such that the threaded fasteners are substantially isolated from shear forces by the abutment of the blades with the seating surfaces.

Abstract: A sickle cutting system is mounted on a header for forward travel over ground having a standing crop thereon and includes a cutter bar with a plurality of knife guards and two opposed sickle bars driven in opposite phase with a drive system for driving the sickle bar through repeated cycles of reciprocating movement from start-up of the system through to a shut-down. The drive system includes a control device responsive to the sensor signals from both of the first and second drive systems for advancing or retarding one of the first and second drive systems so that a number of sensor signals obtained from the first drive system is continually maintained so as to be substantially equal to a number of sensor signals obtained from the second drive system to maintain the sickle bars in opposite phase.

Abstract: A header is removably attached to lift arms of an agricultural harvester by mounting pins received in upwardly facing recesses on the ends of lift arms. A bar is moved into locking position by a lever arm mounted on the lift arms to hold the header mounting pins in place. A hook shaped latching device is pivotally mounted on the lift arm adjacent the lever arm for capturing it in place against the lift arm.

Abstract: A lawn mower includes a mower frame, a prime mover supported by the mower frame, a mower deck mounted to the mower frame, a cutting blade mounted below the mower deck to cut vegetation under the mower deck, and a bagger assembly releasably coupled to the mower frame. The bagger assembly includes a receptacle for collecting cut vegetation. The receptacle has a lid. The bagger assembly also includes a latch supported by the receptacle and operable to engage the mower frame. The latch is moveable between a first position, in which the latch is secured to the mower frame, and a second position, in which the latch is released from the mower frame. The bagger assembly further includes a cord positioned on the lid and coupled to the latch. The cord is operable to move the latch from the first position to the second position.

Abstract: A mower for attachment to an agricultural vehicle, the mower incorporating an “E” bracket including a column, a lower arm, an upper arm, and a medial arm, wherein each of the “E” bracket's arms has a proximal end fixedly attached to the column, and wherein each of the “E” bracket's arms is adapted for plant cutting; the mower further incorporating hitch arms for mounting the “E” bracket upon the rear end or front end of the agricultural vehicle; wherein each “E” bracket arm includes a downwardly opening housing within which a plurality of motor driven rotary blades are operatively mounted.

Abstract: A row unit of a corn head assembly for an agricultural harvester capable of reducing grain loss is provided. The row unit includes a frame and first and second spaced apart row unit arms mounted to the frame, and a top plate. The top plate is positioned about a rear end of the frame and includes an outer surface having a retaining structure configured to inhibit a flow of grain in a forward direction along the outer surface.

Abstract: A bale spear device has a first upper plate having an aperture, a second upper plate having an aperture, an upper cross tube for connecting the first upper plate and the second upper plate together in a spaced apart arrangement, a first lower plate connected to the upper cross tube, a second lower plate connected to the upper cross tube, a lower cross tube for connecting the first lower plate and the second lower plate together in a spaced apart relationship, a socket extending out of the upper cross tube, a spear having a tip end and a socket end with the tip end for insertion into the aperture of the second upper plate and the socket end for insertion into the aperture of the first upper plate, and a locking device for locking the socket end of the spear in the aperture of the first upper plate.

Abstract: Crop transfer device (4) for transferring crop to a receptacle, the device comprising a conveyor (8) for transferring the crop and the conveyor defining a conveyor plane (CP). The conveyor has a conveyor outlet (10) defining an outlet direction (OD) which is the direction of the crop falling from the conveyor at the conveyor outlet. The crop transfer device (4) comprises a scanning device (12) adapted to scan the surface of crop situated below the conveyor outlet and the crop transfer device (4) comprises a mounting device (14) by which the scanning device is mounted to the conveyor (8) with a translational mobility of the scanning device with respect to the conveyor along a path (20).

Abstract: A landscape edging and illumination system including a landscape edging and illumination assembly having a planar member, a tubular member, and a lighting string; wherein the planar member is flexible and structured to be implanted into a ground volume for use. The planar member may have medial ribbing, and the tubular member is structured to be located above ground. The side wall of the tubular member is transparent such that illumination can be emitted there from.

Abstract: A cutting tool has a housing. A blade bar projects forwards from the housing along a longitudinal axis. An electric drive motor drives the blade bar. At least one battery supplies the drive motor with electrical energy. The blade bar, the drive motor and the battery are mounted on the housing. The cutting tool has a top handle arranged above a center of gravity of the hedge trimmer, and a rear handle arranged behind the hedge-trimmer center of gravity. The battery is arranged on the housing at least mainly in front of the rear handle.

Abstract: Disclosed is a firm support for long stem flowers or plants. The stake is provided with interlocking clips with open and close cylinders that hold the plant stem in place. A node is provided on the periphery of the cylinder, which facilitates small hinge operation with a strong magnetic closure for open/close of a cylinder that holds the stem in place.

Abstract: In order to support a plant in a bucket that has a top and outside rim, a trellis base having a base surface portion and a rim engagement portion is disclosed. These portions seat on the top and outside rim of the bucket and extend around and beneath the top and outside rim of the bucket. A bottom portion of a further extension wall carries a hold down means which when positioned beneath the top and outside rim of the bucket, anchors the trellis base on the bucket. An inward bias means to inwardly bias and maintain the hold down means in position can also be used. The base surface portion carries at least one removable upright trellis holding means to removably carry the plant trellis.

Abstract: An Internet-of-Thing (IoT) method for improving ROI of farming includes placing a plurality of sensor hubs in predetermined locations in a farm, each hub including a meteorological data acquisition system and an environmental data collection system; and monitoring key elements in the growing of plants from a plurality of sensor hubs including lighting, humidity, temp, soil moisture, and elements that influence plant growth.

Abstract: The invention provides a composite load bearing member, such as a pole, which can be built for any specific design load with the objective of low cost to replace wood support applications for similar loads, typically up to 10 ton yield support load. The member has at least two layers but may also comprise of three layers for applications where UV protection and flame retardancy is paramount. The inside layer consists of a thermoplastic pipe of low cost, preferably HOPE, PET or PVC. The thermoplastic may or may not contain a flame retardant. The next layer consists of a thin fibreglass pipe as shell for the thermoplastic to enable strength. This fibreglass pipe will be tight fitting on the thermoplastic since the thermoplastic can be used as mandrel for the fibreglass pipe which can be manufactured by pultrusion or pullwinding or fibreglass fabric rolling. The fibreglass resin can be phenolic, epoxy, polyester or vinylester.

Abstract: A brush management system that includes a feller-buncher-cutter for cutting brush and moving cut material, and a chipper for receiving the b's rush material.

Abstract: A system for irrigating an irregularly shaped area including a sprinklers and an electronic device in wired or wireless communication with the sprinkler. The electronic device has a processor and a memory storing programmable instructions causing the sprinkler to irrigate watering sectors according to predefined watering parameters, such that an irregular irrigation pattern is achieved.

Abstract: The automatic timed-release water-supplying flowerpot includes an inner container supported in an upper portion of the interior space of an outer container. Water-absorbent ropes are inserted through inlet water holes cut through the bottom wall of the inner container to absorb water from the lower portion of the interior space of the outer container and carry it to the soil and plant in the inner container. A water-refilling opening is formed between a recessed portion of the side wall of the inner container and the side wall of the outer container. The flowerpot is provided with a filtering tray or a hinged cover over the water-refilling opening to block stuffs other than water from entering the interior space of the outer container. The inner container is supported in the outer container by a horizontally extended rim or by one or more supporting legs.

Abstract: A hydroponic cultivation system for plants includes a first plant cultivation apparatus to hydroponically cultivate plants using a first liquid fertilizer, a first supply path to supply the first liquid fertilizer, a second plant cultivation apparatus to hydroponically cultivate plants using a second liquid fertilizer having a component differing from a component of the first liquid fertilizer, a second supply path to supply the second liquid fertilizer, and a tray carrier device to carry cultivation trays with the plants thereon between the first plant cultivation apparatus and the second plant cultivation apparatus. The cultivation trays are arranged in stages and mutually connected in series to the first supply path via a removable hose in the first plant cultivation apparatus, and the cultivation trays are arranged in stages and mutually connected in series to the second supply path via a removable hose in the second plant cultivation apparatus.

Abstract: A plant cultivation system includes a first floor including a first area having an area provided with a first plant cultivation shelf, an area provided with a second plant cultivation shelf, and an area between the first plant cultivation shelf and the second plant cultivation shelf, the first floor having no air vent holes; a second floor including a second area differing from the first area, the second floor having air vent holes; and an air-conditioning unit configured to circulate air from a ceiling having air supply holes to the air vent holes in the second floor.

Abstract: A plant cultivation system includes a first floor including a first area having an area provided with a first plant cultivation shelf, an area provided with a second plant cultivation shelf, and an area between the first plant cultivation shelf and the second plant cultivation shelf, the first floor having no air vent holes; a second floor including a second area differing from the first area, the second floor having air vent holes; and an air-conditioning unit configured to circulate air from a ceiling having air supply holes to the air vent holes in the second floor.

Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of cucumber hybrid SV4828CN and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of cucumber hybrid SV4828CN and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a cucumber plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another cucumber 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: The invention provides seed and plants of cucumber hybrid SV1096CN and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of cucumber hybrid SV1096CN and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a cucumber plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another cucumber 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: The invention provides seed and plants of cucumber hybrid SV2622CL and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of cucumber hybrid SV2622CL and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a cucumber plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another cucumber 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: The invention provides seed and plants of cucumber hybrid SV2789CL and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of cucumber hybrid SV2789CL and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a cucumber plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another cucumber 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: The invention provides a new and distinct hybrid variety of tomato, NUN 00206 TOP.

Abstract: The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated CJ6085, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line CJ6085 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line CJ6085, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line CJ6085, and plants produced according to these methods.

Abstract: The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated FA4346, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line FA4346 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line FA4346, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line FA4346, and plants produced according to these methods.

Abstract: The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated ID6461, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line ID6461 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line ID6461, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line ID6461, and plants produced according to these methods.

Abstract: The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated ID4402, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line ID4402 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line ID4402, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line ID4402, and plants produced according to these methods.

Abstract: Novel Brassica rapa var. nipposinica, such as Brassica rapa var. nipposinica designated ORIGAMI is disclosed. In some embodiments, the invention relates to the seeds of Brassica rapa var. nipposinica ORIGAMI, to the plants and plant parts of Brassica rapa var. nipposinica ORIGAMI, and to methods for producing a Brassica rapa var. nipposinica plant by crossing the Brassica rapa var. nipposinica ORIGAMI with itself or another Brassica rapa var. nipposinica plant. The invention further relates to methods for producing other Brassica rapa var. nipposinica plants derived from the Brassica rapa var. nipposinica ORIGAMI.

Abstract: Inbred corn lines, designated MM59, CB26, CB27, II13, ML22, MM46, and MM69, are disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn lines MM59, CB26, CB27, II13, ML22, MM46, and MM69, to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn lines MM59, CB26, CB27, II13, ML22, MM46, and MM69 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing inbred corn lines MM59, CB26, CB27, II13, ML22, MM46, and MM69 with itself or another corn line. The invention also relates to products produced from the seeds, plants, or parts thereof, of inbred corn lines MM59, CB26, CB27, II13, ML22, MM46, and MM69 and/or of the hybrids produced using the inbred as a parent. The invention further relates to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn lines MM59, CB26, CB27, II13, ML22, MM46, and MM69.

Abstract: The current invention concerns a spinach plant comprising resistance against Peronospora farinosa races 1-9, 11-15 and isolate UA1014APLP.

Abstract: The current invention concerns a spinach plant comprising resistance against Peronospora farinosa races 1-9, 11-15 and isolate UA1014APLP.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and systems for a cat litter box system that includes a base that extends to an outer edge, a pair of first and second opposed sidewalls extending generally upward from the outer edge to an upper edge, the first and second pairs of opposed sidewalls intersect at defined corners, and collectively form a cavity therein. The upper edge extends generally outward and contains a frustoconical section. An insert is placed within the cavity, wherein the insert includes a base that extends to an outer edge, a pair of first and second opposed sidewalls extending generally upward from the outer edge to an upper edge, forming a cavity therein. An upper edge, extends generally outwardly from the cavity and extends generally downwardly, forming a generally c-shaped upper edge.

Abstract: A litter composition is used in the absorption of animal wastes with aqueous content in the waste. The composition may include: a particulate water-absorbing solids carrier; two solid particles of separate salts that will react in the presence of water to generate molecular iodine; and a solid acid releasing system that releases acid in the presence of the water generating iodine in sufficient amount to maintain a pH of between 3.5 and 7.5 with the reacted residue of the two solid particles and the released acid in the water.

Abstract: A gravity-fed, animal feeding apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus is equipped with a funnel, a food chute, and at least one feeding pan. The food chute of the apparatus preferably includes a transport tube configured to extend through a conventional chain-link fence gap via a diamond-shaped fitting, and terminate at the feeding pan disposed on the floor within the fenced pen area. The apparatus is configured to direct dry pet food fed into the funnel disposed on the exterior of the fenced pen area to the feeding pan on the interior of the fence. Gravity causes the food in the funnel to fall into the food chute, passing through the fence, and outputting the food to the feeding pan. The feeding pan is equipped with drainage holes to ensure that the dry food does not get wet, and that water does not collect in the feeding pan.

Abstract: A method of feeding a carnivore by untrained persons while providing safety the animal and the person feeding the animal. An enclosure for the animal has a transparent or substantially transparent barrier observation barrier. The observation barrier has a void formed therein into which a piece of meat may be pushed, such as by pushing with a finger of a person. The piece of meat is elongated and may be pushed through the void until a portion of the meat exits the void on the side of the barrier in which the carnivore is located. The void is of sufficient length that the user's finger will not exit the void on the side of the barrier in which the carnivore is located. The transparent or substantially transparent barrier provides the illusion that the person is feeding the animal by hand.

Abstract: A food bowl system may include a first bowl having a side wall and a perforated member. A second bowl having a bottom portion and a sidewall is releasably engageable with the first bowl so that the first and second bowls can be separated and joined together with the perforated member disposed therebetween. Aromas from an aroma-producing material placed in the second bowl migrate through the perforated member and into the first bowl stimulating an animal to consume animal food provided in the first bowl.

Abstract: An enrichment device for dispensing edible food products to an animal, and including the capability to provide the animals meal with said device. The device includes a body, an upper surface which preferably is removable from the body, a cavity, at least one passageway in the upper surface, the passageway communicating with the cavity to allow food to pass from the upper surface into the cavity. The body has a wall forming the cavity, and the wall has one or more openings therein to allow for food to pass from the cavity outside of the device where it may be consumed by the animal The device bottom is configured to provide a rocking motion when the device is disrupted.

Abstract: There is provided a heated livestock waterer having a heater chamber, a heater disposed in the heater chamber that, in operation, generates at least heated gas, and a water reservoir having at least one sidewall that is in thermal communication with the heater chamber, the water reservoir having an animal watering section and a covered section covered by a lid, the lid and the covered section defining an air space that is in fluid communication with the heater chamber via an air passage, the air space having a vent to atmosphere.

Abstract: A water bowl for a pet that automatically refills itself. The water bowl includes a bowl having an open interior volume in which water can be stored. A water supply tube extends from an exterior of the bowl to an interior thereof. The water supply tube includes a connector thereon that is configured to removably receive a water supply line. The water supply tube includes a float valve, having a float that is disposed within the bowl. When the water level in the bowl drops below a certain level the change in position of the float causes the float valve to open so that water from the water supply line flows through the water supply tube and into the bowl.

Abstract: According to the invention, a system for stimulating eating by an animal is disclosed. The system may include a primary unit and a secondary unit. The primary unit may be configured to be at least partially supported by a rear portion of the animal's spine. The secondary unit may be coupled with the primary unit and configured to be coupled with a top dorsal portion of the animal's tail. The primary unit may include a first power supply, a processor powered by the first power supply, a second power supply, and a speaker powered by the second power supply and controlled by the processor. The secondary unit may include a vibration generation device powered by the second power supply and controlled by the processor, and a pressure generation device powered by the second power supply and controlled by the processor.