Planting – Liquid or gas soil treatment
Reexamination Certificate
2007-02-06
2007-02-06
Batson, Victor (Department: 3671)
Planting
Liquid or gas soil treatment
C111S900000, C111S903000, C382S110000, C700S089000, C700S283000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11085589
ABSTRACT:
A map of site-specific amounts of a soil nutrient, to be applied in fertilizer to an agricultural field is created using a map of site-specific amounts of the soil nutrient needed to produce the maximum possible yield at the particular site. Subtracted from the site-specific amounts of nutrient needed are site-specific amounts of the nutrient currently existing in the field, thus producing the map of site-specific nutrient amounts to be added. The nutrient amounts may be added to the soil using the map and conventional variable-rate fertilizer application methods. In one embodiment, the amounts of the soil nutrient needed to produce the maximum possible yield at each site is created using a map of site-specific measures of biomass produced by the field in a past growing season or seasons, which in turn is created from a remotely sensed biomass image.
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Fraisse Clyde
Harroun Paul Joseph
Lindgren Timothy A.
Su Haiping
Batson Victor
Patterson Thuente Skaar & Christensen P.A.
The Mosaic Company
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