US Patent Issued to Ag Leader Technology on Dec. 23 for "On the go organic matter sensor and associated systems and methods" (Iowa, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,848, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Ag Leader Technology (Ames, Iowa).

"On the go organic matter sensor and associated systems and methods" was invented by Joe Holoubek (Ames, Iowa), Chad Swindoll (Sumner, Mo.), Aaron Friedlein (Farmersburg, Iowa) and Roger Zielke (Huxley, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An on-the-go planting system utilizing soil organic matter data to prescribed seeding rate, hybrid/variety selection or soil treatment. The system weights at least two field attribute data types, such as soil organic matter data and normalized yield data to prescribe one or more outcomes. The system can also generate a yield ...