Monsanto Technology LLC

Amanuel G Ghebretinsae

Eric L Borrowman

Jeffrey Lawrence Kohne

Jarrett R Ceglinski

Jason T Mitchell

Jiha Kim

Diego Almeida Aguiar

Aldo Barbosa Lima

Diego Campos

Richard M Leimgruber

Isaías Segovia

Tracy L Whitehead

Antonio Carlos Santos

Gretchen E Spiess

A pollinating device for pollinating crop plants includes a base mountable on a carriage. At least one pollination unit is mounted on the base and includes a pollen-releasing apparatus configured to release pollen from male flowers of the plants and at least one nozzle for directing fluid along a flow path for delivering at least some of the released pollen to the pollen-receiving rows of crop plants. Certain pollinating devices include multiple pollination units spaced apart along a width of the base. Some pollination units include at least two opposing nozzles. Plants are pollinated by driving the carriage along a field and directing air from the nozzles over the pollen born by some plants to deliver the pollen to female flowers of other plants in the field.

Device and method for pollinating plants

In a method of measuring moisture in corn, an ear of corn is operatively coupled to a moisture meter and an amount of moisture is determined while the ear of corn is being grown on a corn plant. The moisture meter can use a spectrometry to determine the amount of moisture in the corn. A moisture meter includes a corn interface configured to conformingly engage the ear of corn when pressed against the ear of corn to form an optical seal about an opening through which the spectrometer determines the amount of moisture in the corn to inhibit ambient light from passing between the corn interface and the ear of corn into the at least one opening.

Device and method for measuring moisture in corn on ear

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Chesterfield, MO, United States of America

Amanuel G Ghebretinsae