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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2022
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Devin M. Franzen, Altoona, IA (US);
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
A round baler includes a bale size sensor operable to detect a radial size of a bale during formation thereof, a bale weight sensor operable to detect a weight of a completed bale, and a location sensor operable to determine a respective field origin location of the crop material gathered for each respective one of a plurality of radial layers of the bale. A controller calculates a density of a completed bale with data from the bale weight sensor and the bale size sensor. The controller determines a volume of a respective one of the radial layers during formation of a current bale, subsequent to the completed bale, with data from the bale size sensor. The controller may then estimate a density of the respective one of the radial layers based on the volume of the respective one of the radial layers, and the density of the previously completed bale.