Patent ID: 9603298
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: A01C

Claim:
1. A method of planting or seeding multiple types of seed in a single planting pass during row-crop planting or seeding of an agricultural field with an agricultural implement, the method comprising: storing seeds of multiple types including at least a first type and a second type in multiple compartments of a bulk storage system; selectively transporting the multiple types of seeds along a common flow path towards a plurality of on-row storage systems, each on-row storage system including multiple compartments; diverting each of the multiple types of seeds to a selected one of the multiple compartments of the plurality of on-row storage systems; storing the seeds of multiple types in the multiple compartments of the on-row storage systems; selectively delivering seeds of the first type from a first compartment of a first on-row storage system to a first seed-metering system; releasing seeds of the first type from the first seed-metering system to a first type zone of multiple type zones of the agricultural field; selectively delivering seeds of the second type from a second compartment of a second on-row storage system to a second seed-metering system; and releasing seeds of the second type from the second seed-metering system to a second type zone of the multiple type zones of the agricultural field.