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Smartphone App For Soil Color Determination

An inexpensive, precise, and more readily available alternative to qualitative methods, this smartphone app utilizes the Nix Pro color sensor which is one of the most accurate and proven soil color determination sensors presently on the market. BCC Research estimates that the global environmental sensor and monitoring business has grown approximately...

Published: 10/8/2024 | Inventor(s): Christopher Post, Elena Mikhailova

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Category(s): Agriculture

Software for Operation of Automated Peanut Digging Depth Controller (2020-045)

This precision agriculture automation software is designed for intuitive, simple end-user interface and improved control of peanut digger blade depths. In 2017, the global farm management software and services market was valued at $1.5 billion, and is expected to grow at a constant annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.6% between 2017 and 2021. The U.S. peanut...

Published: 10/8/2024 | Inventor(s): Kendall Kirk

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Category(s): Agriculture

Spatial Image Digitizer to Improve Agricultural GIS

This spatial image digitizer (SID) provides not only normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data with true color imagery but can also indicate soil texture variability. From 2017 to 2018 there is a forecasted nearly twelve percent drop in farming net income in the U.S., making 2018 forecasted to have the lowest net income in over eight years....

Published: 10/8/2024 | Inventor(s): Kendall Kirk

Keywords(s): Agriculture, Computer Software

Category(s): Agriculture, Sustainable Environment

Cutting technique for reduced labored increased product output

This micropropagation technique utilizes a specialized tissue culture vessel and culture process, allowing for increased output and decreased labor time. Plant tissue culture via micropropagation is used for almost the entirety of the banana, sugarcane, floral, and medicinal plant markets, with the demand for tissue-cultured plants growing by roughly...

Published: 10/8/2024 | Inventor(s): Jeffrey Adelberg

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Category(s): Agriculture

Lignocellulose-Sulfur Composite Materials for Construction Applications

These composites chemically combine abundant agricultural and petrochemical wastes, allowing for practical reduction of inert wastes that can be used to either supplement or replace traditional construction materials. Approximately 7 million tons of waste sulfur and 5 million tons of waste lignocellulose are produced each year. Only a quarter of these...

Published: 10/8/2024 | Inventor(s): Rhett Smith, Andrew Tennyson

Keywords(s): Energy - Green Technology, Energy - Petrochemical, Petroleum Refining, Polymers/Composites, Sustainable Construction, Sustainable Manufacturing, Textiles/Fibers - Non-Optical/Medical/Other

Category(s): Manufacturing, Agriculture, Sustainable Environment

Using miR319 gene to Enhance Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Transgenic Plants

This overexpression of the micro RNA (miR319) gene improves salt and drought tolerance in transgenic plants, enhancing crop performance under adverse environmental conditions. Plant micro RNAs are a class of endogenous small noncoding RNAs that play essential roles in diverse biological processes, including plant responses to environmental stresses...

Published: 10/8/2024 | Inventor(s): Hong Luo, Dayong Li, Man Zhou, Qian Hu

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Category(s): Agriculture, Biotechnology

Analysis of Mammary Tissue for Diagnostic Modeling

This fine needle biopsy method is used to evaluate mammary tissue collected repetitively over time from the same animal during development, allowing researchers to predict productivity, the animal’s quality, health, and chance of disease. The U.S. meat and livestock market is a growing market, forecast to have a value of $203.5 billion by 2019....

Published: 10/8/2024 | Inventor(s): Heather Dunn, Kathryn Elliott, Thomas Scott, Matthew Burns

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Category(s): Agriculture, Biotechnology

Crop Yield Monitor for Round and Square Hay Balers (2015-052)

This approach to creating crop yield maps results in better management and increased production efficiency on farms. Yield monitoring technologies have been commercially available for corn and grain crops for at least twenty years and have since become stock equipment for most corn, grain, and cotton harvesters. Growers have grown to depend on yield...

Published: 10/8/2024 | Inventor(s): Kendall Kirk, H Ramsey, Perry Loftis

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Category(s): Agriculture