Method and system for automated tracing of an agricultural product

US6963881B2 · 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
• Georg Larscheid · Geretsried, DE
• Mark Sommer · East Moline, US
• Thomas Wagner · Concord, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 17, 2003
• Grant date: Nov 8, 2005
• Expiry date: Nov 7, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S707/99948
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method and system of tracing an agricultural product relates to recording of at least one of planting information, growing information, harvesting information, chemical information, and weather information (e.g., electronically recorded) concerning a crop to form a data profile for a corresponding crop. Once harvested, the crop is segregated from intermixing with other harvested crops by placing the crop in one or more containers, each having a corresponding identifier. The data profile is associated with the container profile for later referencing of the data profile.