Method and system for automated tracing of an agricultural product

US7761334B2 · 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: Dec 20, 2002
• Grant date: Jul 20, 2010
• Expiry date: Aug 6, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S706/904
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Crop information related to a particular crop is collected and stored in data storage during the performance of an agricultural operation. A harvested particular crop is segregated from all other genetically distinct crops by storing the particular harvested crops in one or more segregated storage volumes for storing the particular crop. Each segregated storage volume has a corresponding storage identifier. An electronically accessible data profile, associated with the particular crop, is provided or made available to a user. The data profile includes the collected crop information.