| Crop Production Archived |
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Each year, approximately 60 new patents are issued by the U.S. Patent Office for USDA inventions. The Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) transfers these inventions through licenses to the private sector for commercialization. Below are links to the older technologies that are available for licensing.
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66.11 |
DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF “SEED PILLOW” TECHNOLOGY FOR OVERCOMING THE LIMITING FACTORS CONTROLLING RANGELAND RESEEDING SUCCESS |
This technology provides a planting method that is more similar to the way plants grow in natural systems by grouping seeds within the same microsite during planting. |
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17.09 |
ROTARY CULTIVATOR |
The invention consists of a hydraulically-driven rotary hoe drawn behind a tractor,used to cultivate around established plants, vines, or trees. |
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80.05 + 71.11 |
TRANSFER AND INCORPORATION OF HERITABLE SYMBIOTIC FUNGI INTO NON-HOST PLANTS |
These resultant first plant species containing the endophytic fungi exhibit substantially increased vigor, altered morphology and chemistry, and increased reproductive potential compared to non-treated controls. |
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60.09 |
IRRIGATION SCHEDULING AND SUPERVISORY CONTROL AND DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM FOR MOVING AND STATIC IRRIGATION SYSTEMS |
This process and set of devices will automatically schedule crop irrigations when the crop is water stressed and will control a moving or static (e.g., drip or sprinkler) irrigation system to apply the irrigation. |
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16.07 + 174.13 |
NON-TRANSGENIC SOFT TEXTURED TETRAPLOID WHEAT PLANTS HAVING GRAIN WITH SOFT TEXTURED ENDOSPERM, ENDOSPERM THEREFROM AND USES THEREOF |
The invention relates to wheat breeding, new non-transgenic tetraploid wheat cultivars having grain with soft textured endosperm and methods of producing the new non-transgenic tetraploid wheat cultivars having grain with soft-textured endosperm. |
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122.11 |
TRI-SEED MUTANT AS A GENETIC RESOURCE FOR INCREASING SORGHUM YIELD |
The USDA has identified and developed a class of sorghum mutants that produces three times the seed number found in typical sorghum panicles available for cultivation. |
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124.09 |
CHEMICAL ATTRACTANTS AND REPELLANT FOR VARRO MITES |
When mites move off of adult bees and can be captured in a variety of trapping devices using the attractants or the compounds can be used to otherwise confuse mites by saturating the enviroNew Materialsent so mites can not find suitable reproductive sites. |
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189.07 |
IN-HIVE TRAP AND LURE FOR CONTROL OF THE SMALL HIVE BEETLE, AETHINA TUMIDA |
A Small Hive Beetle trap, which replaces the bottom board of beehives, includes a frame having three walls and a top surface, a trap plate, an entry means, and a trapping means. The trapping means provides a dark environment attractive to small hive beetles and contains a small hive beetle attractant made from pollen dough and inoculated with yeast that produces small hive beetle attracting volatiles. The yeast is a biologically pure strain of yeast producing hive beetle attracting volatiles designated yeast spp. NRRL Y-30722. |
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98.04 |
ROLLER SYSTEM FOR COVER CROP TERMINATION |
A smooth roller with an attached crimping arm was designed and fabricated to terminate cover crops which are an integral component of soil conservation systems. The smooth drum flattens the cover crop in the direction of travel and the crimping bar behind the drum crimps the cover crop in 6 inch intervals. |
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143.06 |
MULTISTAGE CROP ROLLER |
A two stage roller was designed and fabricated to terminate cover crops which are an integral component of no-till conservation system. |
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23.10 |
PTO POWERED MICRO-ROLLER/CRIMPER FOR MECHANICAL TERMINATION OF COVER CROPS USING A WALK-BEHIND LIMITED-POWER GARDEN TRACTOR |
A PTO-powered micro-roller attached to a self-propelled walk-behind garden tractor, was designed and fabricated to terminate cover crops in no-till and/or organic vegetable garden/small farm. |
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24.11 |
COVER CROP RESIDUE MANAGER |
The residue manager deflects cover crop stalks and flattens cover crop residue during a no-till or minimum-till agricultural planting process. |
