Patent Document ID: 9009087
Application ID: 14603381
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: ingesting, as input data, weather information and crop-specific information for a grain crop to be harvested, the weather information including recent and current field-level weather data and extended-range forecast weather data, and the crop-specific information including at least one of crop type data and harvest 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 the impacts of time-varying weather conditions and characteristics of a grain drying facility, using at least one of fuel-based drying or forced-air mechanical drying of harvested grain, on unit costs of drying of harvested grain, by 1) predicting expected weather conditions relative to the energy requirements associated with migration of moisture from an interior of an individual grain to a surface, and evaporation of moisture from the surface to surrounding air associated with a grain drying facility, using at least one of fuel-based drying or forced-air mechanical drying of harvested grain, 2) applying the expected weather conditions, the crop-specific information, and facility metadata representing actual and/or realized performance characteristics of a grain drying facility using at least one of fuel-based drying or forced-air mechanical drying of harvested grain to at least one of an agricultural model of one or more physical and empirical characteristics impacting post-harvest storage of the harvested grain crop, and an artificial intelligence model of drying harvested grain, and 3) simulating time-varying unit costs per percentage of moisture per unit of mass or volume associated with at least one of fuel-based drying or forced-air mechanical drying; and generating, as output data, one or more advisories representing a prediction of the time-varying unit costs per percentage of moisture per unit of mass or volume associated with at least one of fuel-based drying or forced-air mechanical drying in a harvest output condition profile.