Patent ID: 9043951
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: A01C,G05D

Abstract:
1. A system for creating an agricultural tramline, comprising an agricultural planting machine; a computer terminal; an application executing on the computer terminal; a plurality of seeding units mounted on the agricultural planting machine; a location sensor mounted on the agricultural planting machine; a control system mounted on the agricultural planting machine; and whereby an operator can use the application to create a file specifying the location of a desired agricultural tramline on a plot of land, the file is downloaded from the computer terminal to the control system, the control system calculates a unit location for each of the plurality of seeding units based on the location sensor and independent of a dimension of the agricultural planting machine, and the control system uses the location of the desired agricultural tramline and unit location information to enable and disable the plurality of seeding units when they are coincident with the location of the desired agricultural tramline, such that the area of land corresponding to the desired agricultural tramline is not planted with seed.