Patent Document ID: 9140824
Application ID: 14603380
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: ingesting, as input data, weather information and crop-specific information for a food grains crop to be harvested, the weather information including recent and current field-level weather data and extended-range weather forecast data, and the crop-specific information including at least one of crop type data and planting data; modeling the input data in a plurality of data processing modules within a computing environment in which the plurality of data processing modules are executed in conjunction with at least one processor, the data processing modules configured to profile in-field dry-down of the food grains crop for planning a timing of harvest operations by 1) predicting expected weather conditions impacting the rate of drying of the food grains crop in the planted field at a specific location, 2) applying the expected weather conditions and the crop-specific information to an agricultural model of one or more physical and empirical characteristics impacting harvest operations of the food grains crop to simulate an expected rate of drying of the food grains crop in a particular field, and 3) identifying differences in the simulation of expected rate of drying with one or more sampled observations of actual moisture from a planted field at corresponding times, and modifying the simulation based on the differences between the otherwise simulated rate of drying and the one or more sampled observations of actual moisture content at the corresponding times to predict an in-field dry-down of the food grains crop in the particular field over time; and generating, as output data, one or more advisories representing the predicted in-field dry-down in a harvest output condition profile.