PREDICTIVE SEED SCRIPTING FOR SOYBEANS

• Main Authors: JACOBS, Morrison, SOOD, Shilpa, MACISAAC, Susan A, ROCK, David, HELLAND, Nicholas, BHAGAT, Jigyasa, TRAPP, Allan
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 28.09.2022
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; FERTILISING; FISHING; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; PHYSICS; PLANTING; SOWING; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRAPPING

A method and apparatus for adjusting seeding rates at a sub-field level is provided. The method comprises identifying, using a server computer, a set of target agricultural fields with intra-field crop variability based upon historical agricultural data comprising historical yield data and historical observed agricultural data for a plurality of fields; receiving, over a digital data communication network at the server computer, a plurality of digital images of the set of target agricultural fields; determining, using the server computer, vegetative index values for geo-locations within each field of the set of target agricultural fields using subsets of the plurality of digital images, wherein each subset among the subsets of the plurality of digital images corresponds to a specific target field in the set of target agricultural fields; for each target field in the set of target agricultural fields, determining, using the server computer, a plurality of sub-field zones based upon vegetative index values for geo-locations within each target field, wherein each sub-field zone of the plurality of sub-field zones contains similar vegetative index values; determining, using the server computer, vegetative index productivity scores for each sub-field zone of each target field in the set of target agricultural fields, wherein the vegetative index productivity scores represent a relative crop productivity specific to a type of seed planted within corresponding sub-fields zones; receiving, over a digital data communication network at the server computer, current seeding rates for each of the sub-field zones of the set of target agricultural fields; determining, using the server computer, adjusted seeding rates for each of the sub-fields of the set of target agricultural fields by adjusting the current seeding rates using the vegetative index productivity scores corresponding to each of the sub-fields zones; sending the adjusted seeding rates for each of the sub-field zones of each of the target agricultural fields to a field manager computing device.