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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2024
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Duane M. Bomleny, Geneseo, IL (US);
Scott N. Clark, Bettendorf, IA (US);
Nathan R. Vandike, Geneseo, IL (US);
Bradley K. Yanke, Eldridge, IA (US);
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
An agricultural system includes a drone controllable to exert force on a crop plant at a worksite, one or more harvest readiness sensors configured to detect one or more harvest readiness attributes after exertion of force on the crop plant and to generate harvest readiness sensor data indicative of the one or more harvest readiness attributes. The system further includes one or more processors and memory storing instructions, executable by the one or more processors. The instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to control the drone to exert force on the crop plant and identify a harvest readiness values corresponding to the worksite based on the harvest readiness sensor data.