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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2018
Applicant:
Precision Planting, Llc, Tremont, IL (US);
Inventor:
Chad Plattner, Tremont, IL (US);
Assignee:
Precision Planting LLC, Tremont, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01B 63/00 (2006.01); A01B 63/32 (2006.01); A01B 3/24 (2006.01); A01C 5/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01B 63/008 (2013.01); A01B 3/24 (2013.01); A01B 63/32 (2013.01); A01C 5/062 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of controlling the downpressure on an air seeder that has a plurality of seed assemblies and a plurality of fertilizer assemblies each applying an adjustable downforce, wherein the method includes keeping a total downforce applied by all of the plurality of seed assemblies and all of the plurality of fertilizer assemblies less than a maximum downforce. The method may also include keeping the downforce applied by each of the fertilizer assemblies less than the downforce applied by each of the seed assemblies.