Cnh Industrial America LLC

Matthew K Payne

Tyson J Dollinger

John Stratton

Steven Sobieszek

Bojan Jelenkovic

Matthew Lindsey

A system, an apparatus and a method for automatically controlling application of an agricultural product utilize an in-cab controller and touchscreen, and a GPS receiver to generate an application prescription and related commands on-the-fly from GPS coordinated data gathered at the time of planting, in accordance with application rate parameters stored in the controller. The application parameters may be provided and modified on-the fly using the touchscreen and may include parameters relating to adjusting application rates to accommodate planting arrangements including more than one variety of seed, and/or variable population rates of planted seed.

Automatic application rate and section control based on actual planting data

A method for automatically generating swath paths and navigating a vehicle along the generated swath paths using a controller includes the steps of: marking a plurality of field boundary points; storing the field boundary points in a memory unit of the vehicle; generating a field boundary defining the plurality of field boundary points connected to one another; selecting an edge of the field boundary as a base swath path; generating a plurality of subsequent swath paths from the base swath path; measuring a set of parameters of the vehicle; and automatically selecting one of the subsequent swath paths for the vehicle to follow based on the set of parameters.

Automatic swath generation device and methods

An agricultural vehicle for towing an agricultural implement or a self-propelled agricultural implement has at least two individual row elements attached to the agricultural implement. A heads-up display is operable to display an individual row element status graphic for each of the at least two individual row elements on a windshield or window of the agricultural vehicle, which may be the rear windshield and side windows. The individual row element status graphics are displayed in alignment with the at least two individual row elements as viewed by an operator of the agricultural vehicle. The individual row element status graphics contain information pertaining to the at least two individual row elements, which may be at least one measured parameter value associated with that individual row element.

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Matthew K Payne