Method and system for automated tracing of an agricultural product

US6691135B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Deere & Company · US

Inventors

• Terence D. Pickett · Waukee, US
• Frederick W. Nelson · Waukee, US
• Stephen Michael Faivre · Kingston, US
• Andy Dwayne Beck · Urbandale, US
• Thomas Wagner · Concord, US
• Georg Larscheid · Geretsried, DE
• Mark Sommer · East Moline, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 20, 2002
• Grant date: Feb 10, 2004
• Expiry date: Dec 20, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S707/99948
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

At least one of pre-planting information, planting information, growing information, harvesting information, chemical information, weather information, adjacent crop information, processing information, manufacturing information and retail information is stored in data storage. The stored information is arranged to provide a data profile associated with a particular crop for a defined geographic area. A storage identifier is associated with the arranged data profile for the particular crop. The storage identifier identifies at least one of a container and segregated storage bin for holding a particular crop for a tracked (e.g., an assigned) time duration.