Method for pest control

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11778939-B2
Application number	US-202117194939-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 8, 2021
Priority date	Jun 28, 2016
Publication date	Oct 10, 2023
Grant date	Oct 10, 2023

Abstract

The present invention relates to the technical field of controlling harmful organisms in the cultivation of cultivated plants. The present invention relates to a method for controlling harmful organisms, to a system for controlling harmful organisms and to the use of a digital application map for the application of one or more control agents against harmful organisms.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for controlling harmful organisms on a field on which cultivated plants are cultivated, which method comprises the following steps:
(A) generating a digital harmful-organisms distribution map on which subareas on the field are registered, in which subareas the harmful organisms have been detected directly or indirectly;
(B) generating a digital application map on the basis of the digital harmful-organisms distribution map, it being registered on the digital application map those subareas of the field on which subareas one or more control agents against the harmful organisms are to be applied, it being registered for each of said subareas a number N of treatments with one or more control agents, wherein N is greater than 1;
(C) applying one or more control agents against the harmful organisms as per the digital application map from step (B), the number N for the treated subareas being reduced by 1; and
(D) repeating step (C) for each subarea until N has reached for the value zero,
wherein there is incorporation into the digital application map in step (B) of those subareas of the field in which subareas there has been detection in step (A) of nests with harmful organisms that have survived after an application of one or more control agents.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein those subareas of the field in which subareas harmful organisms have been detected directly or indirectly in step (A) and in which subareas an economic threshold has been reached or exceeded are incorporated into the digital application map.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the harmful organisms are weeds and/or grass weeds and the one or more control agents are one or more herbicides.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the harmful organisms are animal pests, and in which the one or more control agent are pesticides.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the number N in the generation of the digital application map is set to two, three or four.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the control of the harmful organisms with a control agent is accompanied by a physical control or in that a physical control of the harmful organisms takes place at least in part of regions of the field in which regions harmful organisms have been detected, but in which regions no economic threshold has been exceeded.

7. A method for controlling harmful organisms on a field on which cultivated plants are cultivated, which method comprises the following steps:
(A) generating a digital harmful-organisms distribution map on which subareas on the field are registered, in which subareas the harmful organisms have been detected directly or indirectly;
(B) generating a digital application map on the basis of the digital harmful-organisms distribution map, it being registered on the digital application map those subareas of the field on which subareas one or more control agents against the harmful organisms are to be applied, it being registered for each of said subareas a number N of treatments with one or more control agents, wherein N is greater than 1;
(C) applying one or more control agents against the harmful organisms as per the digital application map from step (B), the number N for the treated subareas being reduced by 1; and
(D) repeating step (C) for each subarea until N has reached for the value zero,
wherein a new digital harmful-organisms distribution map is generated again as per step (A) after an effected application of one or more control agents to the subareas concerned, and additions are made in step (B) in the digital application map to those regions in which harmful organisms have been detected in the new digital harmful-organisms distribution map, the subareas in which N has not yet reached the value zero remaining in force and subareas in which N has reached the value zero being deleted.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein those subareas of the field in which subareas harmful organisms have been detected directly or indirectly in step (A) and in which subareas an economic threshold has been reached or exceeded are incorporated into the digital application map.

9. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the harmful organisms are weeds and/or grass weeds and the one or more control agents are one or more herbicides.

10. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the harmful organisms are animal pests, and in which the one or more control agent are pesticides.

11. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the number N in the generation of the digital application map is set to two, three or four.

12. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the control of the harmful organisms with a control agent is accompanied by a physical control or in that a physical control of the harmful organisms takes place at least in part of regions of the field in which regions harmful organisms have been detected, but in which regions no economic threshold has been exceeded.

13. A system for controlling harmful organisms, the system comprising:
a digital application map configured for display by a display device, the digital application map being descriptive of on which those subareas of a field which are to be treated with one or more control agents for the harmful organisms are registered;
a position determination system; and
an application device comprising:
at least one container for accommodating at least one control agent against the harmful organisms;
a spray device for applying the at least one control agent;
a control unit comprising a memory for reading in the digital application map; and means for communicating with the position determination system and means for controlling the spray device,

wherein a number N is registered on the digital application map for each of the subareas, which number specifies how many times a treatment of the subarea with the control agent is to take place, wherein N is greater than 1, wherein the control unit is equipped in such a way that the number N is reduced by one after a treatment has taken place, and wherein there is incorporation into the digital application map subareas of the field in which there has been detection of nests with harmful organisms that have survived after an application of one or more control agents.

14. The system according to claim 13 , wherein those subareas of the field in which subareas harmful organisms have been detected directly or indirectly in step (A) and in which subareas an economic threshold has been reached or exceeded are incorporated into the digital application map.

15. The system according to claim 13 , wherein the harmful organisms are weeds and/or grass weeds and the one or more control agents are one or more herbicides.

16. The system according to claim 13 , wherein the harmful organisms are animal pests, and in which the one or more control agent are pesticides.

17. The system according to claim 13 , wherein the number N in the generation of the digital application map is set to two, three or four.

18. The system according to claim 13 , wherein the control of the harmful organisms with a control agent is accompanied by a physical control or in that a physical control of the harmful organisms takes place at least in part of regions of the field in which regions harmful organisms have been detected, but in which regions no economic threshold has been exceeded.

19. A digital application map configured for display by a display device, wherein the digital application map is generated according to the method of claim 1 .

Assignees

• Basf Agro Trademarks Gmbh

Inventors

• Hoffmann Holger
• Peters Ole
• Grüneberg Eleen
• Johnen Andreas
• Girg Andree-Georg

Classifications

• A01B79/005 Primary

  Precision agriculture · CPC title

• A01M7/0089

  Regulating or controlling systems (the delivery being related to the movement of a vehicle B05B9/06) · CPC title

• A01M21/043

  by chemicals · CPC title

• A01N25/00

  Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators, characterised by their forms, or by their non-active ingredients or by their methods of application {, e.g. seed treatment or sequential application}; Substances for reducing the noxious effect of the active ingredients to organisms other than pests · CPC title

• A01N25/02

  containing liquids as carriers, diluents or solvents · CPC title