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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2014
Cnh Industrial America Llc, New Holland, PA (US);
Keith W. Wendte, Willowbrook, IL (US);
Chad M. Johnson, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Scott A. Long, Plainfield, IL (US);
Brian T. Adams, Centralia, MO (US);
Marvin A. Prickel, Homer Glen, IL (US);
Jason T. Czapka, Munster, IN (US);
Brian T. Anderson, Yorkville, IL (US);
Michael J. Connors, Lockport, IL (US);
Darian E. Landolt, Evanston, IL (US);
CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);
Abstract
A system is provided for planting multiple types of seed and automatically switching between the varieties during planting in a single planting pass of a planting session of row-crop planting an agricultural field. The system may include a selector assembly arranged between a multi-compartment on-row hopper and a seed meter at each row unit of a planter. A control system controls selector valves of the selector assembly to switch from releasing of seeds of a first type from the on-row hopper the seed meter to releasing of seeds of a second type from the on-row hopper to the seed meter for providing a switchover of seeds being planted from the seed meter, from the first to the second type when the seed meter cross a boundary between different zones of the agricultural field.