Precision Planting, Inc.

Joaquin Ganoza

Dale M Koch

Todd Swanson

Kent Levy

Timothy A Schaefer

Adam Vaccari

Reid Harman

Riley Litwiller

Joshua Seelye

An automated computer-controlled sampling system and related methods for collecting, processing, and analyzing agricultural samples for various chemical properties such as plant available nutrients. The sampling system allows multiple samples to be processed and analyzed for different analytes or chemical properties in a simultaneous concurrent or semi-concurrent manner. Advantageously, the system can process soil samples in the 'as collected' condition without drying or grinding. The system generally includes a sample preparation sub-system which receives soil samples collected by a probe collection sub-system and produces a slurry (e.g., mixture of soil, vegetation, and/or manure and water), and a chemical analysis sub-system which processes the prepared slurry samples for quantifying multiple analytes and/or chemical properties of the sample. The preparation sub-system may comprise a slurry recirculation flow loop configured with devices to stir, measure, and adjust a water to solids ratio of the slurry.

Agricultural sampling system and related methods

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Pingree Grove, IL, United States of America

Joaquin Ganoza