Patent ID: 11893648
Assignee: CLIMATE LLC
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 7:
8. A computer system comprising:
an agricultural machine computing device coupled to an agricultural implement; and
one or more processors and one or more memories communicatively coupled to the one or more processors, the one or more processors configured to:
receive, over a network, field definition data and environmental data,
wherein the field definition data identify a field,
wherein the environmental data include environmental information related to farming activities for the field;

determine soil data from the environmental data,
wherein the soil data includes soil type, cation exchange capacity, and available nitrogen for the field;

determine, based on at least the soil data, carbon load data indicating carbon load present in the field during a planting date;
receive first input indicating a plurality of starter application criteria,
wherein the plurality of start application criteria includes planting data, criteria of a starter application equipment, a type of a starter fertilizer, and a composition of the starter fertilizer;

based on the first input and the carbon load present in the field, generate application data that include an amount of the starter fertilizer that provides nutrients to seeds throughout a nutrient immobilization period between the planting date and a beginning of a microorganism mineralization period;
generate control instructions for controlling an agricultural implement based on the generated application data; and
communicate the control instructions to an agricultural machine computing device; and

wherein the agricultural machine computing device is configured, in response to the control instructions, to control at least one of a pump rate of a variable-rate pump or a valve state of an electrically operated liquid control valve of the agricultural implement via signals consistent with the control instructions to apply, via the variable-rate pump or the electrically operated liquid control valve, the amount of starter fertilizer to the field.