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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2019
Climate Llc, Saint Louis, MO (US);
Shilpa Sood, Chesterfield, MO (US);
Jigyasa Bhagat, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Rock, San Francisco, CA (US);
Allan Trapp, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nicholas Helland, San Francisco, CA (US);
Morrison Jacobs, San Francisco, CA (US);
Susan Andrea Macisaac, Jersey Ciy, NJ (US);
MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC, Saint Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for adjusting seeding rates at a sub-field level is provided. The method comprises identifying a set of target agricultural fields having intra-field crop variability above a threshold based upon historical agricultural data; determining vegetative index values for geo-locations within each field using subsets of digital images, wherein each subset corresponds to a specific target field; for each target field, determining a plurality of sub-field zones based upon vegetative index values for geo-locations within each target field, wherein each sub-field zone contains similar vegetative index values; determining vegetative index productivity scores for each sub-field zone that represent a relative crop productivity specific to a type of seed planted within corresponding sub field zones; determining adjusted seeding rates for each of the sub-field zones by adjusting current seeding rates using the vegetative index productivity scores corresponding to each of the sub-field zones.