Lely Patent N.v.

Korstiaan Cornelis Blokland

Karel Van Den Berg

Jan Lambertus Pastoor

Dik-Jan Wisse

Renatus Ignatius Josephus Fransen

Arie Huyzer

Roelof Stapel

Samuel Van Dijk

Carlo Van Sonsbeek

Ingrid Elisabeth Maria Den Uijl

Maarten Van Den Berg

Petrus Johannes Van Schie

Ernst Arnout Roscam Abbing

Tomas Wigman

A system for mowing plants includes a piece of land on which the plants grow, and an autonomous, self-propelled mowing vehicle. The system includes a dwelling space for keeping animals including a feeding area for feeding mowed plants to the animals. A control system for controlling the mowing device is configured to (i) mow plants on the piece of land by means of the mowing device while the mowing vehicle drives across the piece of land, (ii) displace the mowing vehicle with mowed plants accommodated in the holder from the piece of land to the feeding area in the dwelling space, and (iii) dispense mowed plants to said feeding area by means of the dispensing device to feed the mowed plants to the animals.

System for mowing plants, in particular grass, and method of feeding animals by means of such a system

A method, using an autonomous, unmanned device and a control device, includes the steps of automatically harvesting feed crop in a part of a crop field by means of the autonomous, unmanned device; automatically loading the harvested feed crop directly into a storage space provided on the autonomous, unmanned device without said harvested feed crop contacting the soil; choosing a destination location from a feeding location and a stationary crop processing location; automatically transporting the harvested feed crop from the crop field to the chosen destination location by means of the autonomous, unmanned device; and automatically unloading harvested feed from the storage space of the autonomous, unmanned device at the chosen destination location.

Agricultural method and system for performing the method

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Korstiaan Cornelis Blokland