Crop product tracking system and method

Fecha de publicación: 11/12/2014
Fuente: Wipo "precision farming"
A system is disclosed that can be used in precision farming to apply crop product to a field. The system includes a remote terminal connected with a network. The remote terminal includes a scanning application configured to allow the remote terminal to scan a unique product identifier associated with a crop product to be applied to a field. A server is connected with the remote terminal via the network. A transmission application is associated with the remote terminal that is configured to transmit the unique product identifier to the server. A lookup application associated with the server is configured to query a crop product database to retrieve one or more crop product data properties associated with the crop product. A prescription map generation application is configured to generate a prescription map for the field as a function of the one or more crop product data properties. A map transmission application is configured to transmit the prescription map to a field terminal associated with a piece of farming equipment which applies the crop product to the field according to the prescription map.