Patent ID: 11871702
Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  B  G | IPC A  G

Claim 17:
18. A method of identifying and tracking a bale, the method comprising:
collecting crop material with a pick-up of a baler implement;
conveying the crop material from the pick-up into a baling chamber;
forming the crop material into a bale having a shape within the baling chamber;
wrapping the bale with a wrap material to secure the shape of the bale;
installing an identification tag onto the bale with a tag installer, wherein the identification tag is a radio frequency identification tag;
receiving data from a sensor, with a baler implement controller, wherein the data is related to a characteristic of the bale;
continuously emitting an interrogation signal from a reader in accordance with a pre-defined timing sequence;
receiving identification data from the identification tag, with the baler implement controller, in response to the interrogation signal;
associating, with the baler implement controller, the data related to the bale with the identification data from the identification tag of the bale; an
communicating, with the baler implement controller, the associated data related to the bale and the identification data from the identification tag to a remote memory.