An Optical Yield Monitor for Peanuts – Proof of Concept and Evaluation

Peanut (Arachis Hypogea) is one of the few major agronomic crops for which a yield monitor is not commercially available. This paper describes an ongoing project whose long-term goal is to adapt an optical sensor originally developed for cotton yield monitoring for use as a peanut yield monitor (PYM...

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Published inAdvances in animal biosciences Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 199 - 203
Main Authors Porter, E., Vellidis, G., Liakos, V., Porter, W., Branch, B.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.07.2017
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Agricultural production
Agriculture
Agronomic crops
Agronomy
Cotton
Crop Sensors and Sensing
Crop yield
Data acquisition
Efficiency
Harvest
Impact damage
Lenses
Load
Management decisions
Moisture content
Nuts
Peanuts
Sensors
Soil sciences
United States > US
Georgia
yield monitor
peanut
optical
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Summary:Peanut (Arachis Hypogea) is one of the few major agronomic crops for which a yield monitor is not commercially available. This paper describes an ongoing project whose long-term goal is to adapt an optical sensor originally developed for cotton yield monitoring for use as a peanut yield monitor (PYM). The immediate objective of the work reported here was to evaluate the PYM under harvest conditions typical in southern Georgia, USA. The PYM consists of two mass-flow sensors, a data acquisition system, and a DGPS receiver. The PYM was evaluated on three fields totaling 29 ha during the 2016 harvest season. Percent error between the scale load and calculated load was 2% or better for the first field tested, but increased greatly for subsequent fields that were tested, most likely caused by damage to the sensor lens from the impact of pebbles.
ISSN:2040-4700
2040-4719
DOI:10.1017/S2040470017000061