Monsanto Technology LLC

Jarrett R Ceglinski

Eric L Borrowman

Brad D White

Jeffrey Lawrence Kohne

Govind Chaudhary

Kevin Lee Deppermann

Chi Zhang

Jason T Mitchell

Johnny J Kotyk

Charles K Johnson

Jeffrey Steven Morris

Payman Rassoolkhani

Louis M Pompe Van Meerdervoort

Steven John Swanton

Amanuel G Ghebretinsae

Dustin Mitchell Theis

Leendert De Bruin

Joshua Allen Crews

Ralph E Nothdurft

Jerry Christopher

Jiha Kim

Kirk Murlin Remund

Richard M Leimgruber

Kevin M Mcalister

Adam Harold Leek

Tracy L Whitehead

Jason W Knoche

Christian A Saia

David Everett Johnson

Jack Glenn Fombelle

Xiaofei Fan

Timothy P Garvin

Daniel Dillard

Adam M Barrick

Jennifer L Becker

A seed sorting system for sorting seeds includes a seed transfer station configured to move seeds through the system. An imaging assembly includes a first camera mounted above the seed transfer station and configured to acquire images of the seeds as the seeds move through the system and a second camera mounted below the seed transfer station and configured to acquire images of the seeds as the seeds move through the system. A sorting assembly is configured to sort the seeds into separate bins based on the acquired images of the seeds.

Seed sorting

Provided herein are systems and methods for the automation of seed planting and analysis comprising automated planting of the seeds, germination, and analysis. The methods generally comprise conveying containers containing seeds to an automated seed planting station, wherein each container includes a machine-readable tag, planting at least some of the seeds in the container onto respective planting trays, wherein each planting tray includes a machine-readable tag, allowing the seeds to germinate, and analyzing the germinated seeds. The systems generally comprise a seed planting system and a planting verification and correction system. Also provided herein are backlit templates comprising a light source and a power interface configured to connect to a power source to power the light source.

Automated seed planting and evaluation

A method for producing seed corn from the corn plants, for use in growing subsequent corn plants, includes measuring a moisture content of corn kernels on ears of the corn plants in the field and removing, by a combine harvester, the ears of corn from the corn plants when the moisture content satisfies a threshold moisture content. The method then includes separating the corn kernels from cobs of the ears of corn onboard the combine harvester and collecting the separated corn kernels for use as seed corn, whereby one or more subsequent corn plants can be grown from the collected corn kernels.

Methods for harvesting corn using combine harvesters

A seed sorting system for sorting seeds includes a seed transfer station configured to move seeds through the system. An imaging assembly includes an x-ray camera configured to acquire x-ray images of the seeds as the seeds move through the system. The x-ray camera is configured to produce high quality images at high line scan rates to accommodate a speed and width at which the seeds are moved by the seed transfer station through the system. A sorting assembly is configured to sort the seeds into separate bins based on the acquired x-ray images of the seeds.

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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St. Louis, MO, United States of America

Jarrett R Ceglinski