Methods and systems for estimating volumes of agricultural crops are provided. A geographic position sensor provides positions of a harvesting machine as it gathers an agricultural crop and places the crop on the ground in a windrow. A speed of the harvesting machine is determined using the geographic position sensor. Signals are received from a sensor system disposed at a bottom of the harvesting machine. The signals are indicative of profiles of segments of the windrow on the ground. Cross-sectional areas of the windrow are estimated using the signals. Volumes of the agricultural crop are estimated using the speed of the harvesting machine and the estimated cross-sectional areas of the windrow.

An orchard sanitation implement disposes of unharvested nuts which may otherwise be utilized as habitat and food for navel orangeworms. Unharvested nuts are lifted from the orchard floor and delivered to a storage bin of the implement. Once received within the storage bin, the unharvested nuts are separated from other orchard debris by a looping belt which allows unharvested nuts to fall through, but other orchard debris is conveyed outside of the storage bin for deposit either into a container or back to the orchard floor. The unharvested nuts fall through openings in the looping belt, through an outlet at the bottom of the storage bin and into a shredding unit attached to the outlet. The shredding unit shreds and pulverizes the unharvested nuts into a composition which is too small to be utilized by navel orangeworms for habitat or a source of food.

A roller assembly for smoothing an expanse of granular media such as golf bunker sand, snow, horse race track dirt, or other media. The assembly has one or more rollers having a longitudinal axis. Each roller includes wires spaced from the axis to define a roller surface. Each wire is resiliently flexible to distort inwardly in response to force of contact on, and to recover during release of force from, the granular media as the roller rotates about the axis on the granular media. A shaft extends along the axis of the roller assembly between the arms of a yoke with a handle extending therefrom. As the roller surface traverses the media, at least some of the media is flung outwardly of the roller, smoothing the expanse. The roller assembly may be manually operated or may be towed behind a towing apparatus.

Systems and methods for replacing a removable assembly from a harvester for collecting and separating harvested crop product from twigs, dirt, dust, and other debris. A removable assembly for picking up harvested crop product and a removable assembly for separating the picked up harvested crop product from twigs, dirt, dust, and other debris are mounted to be changed out quickly in the field. A removable pickup assembly is received for removably mounting in the harvester by an inclined slot formed in a sidewall of the harvester body frame, so that the removable pickup assembly with the worn belt is lifted up and out and a replacement removable pickup assembly with a new belt is dropped into its place.

Disclosed is an automated walnut picking and collection method based on multi-sensor fusion technology, including: operation 1.1: when a guide vehicle for automated picking and collection is started, performing path planning for the guide vehicle; operation 1.2: remotely controlling the guide vehicle to move in a park according to a first predetermined rule, and collecting laser data of the entire park; operation 1.3: constructing a two-dimensional offline map; operation 1.4: marking a picking road point on the two-dimensional offline map; operation 2.1: performing system initialization; operation 2.2: obtaining a queue to be collected; operation 2.3: determining and sending, by the automated picking system, a picking task; operation 2.4: arriving, by the picking robot, at picking target points in sequence; operation 2.5: completing a walnut shaking and falling operation; and operation 2.6: collecting shaken walnuts. The provided method can obtain high-precision fruit coordinates and complete autonomous harvesting precisely and efficiently.

A method and a harvesting machine for harvesting fruit from the ground, according to which fruit is harvested by means of a harvesting device, which is configured to form a harvested material flow consisting of fruit and foreign bodies, to move the harvested material along a cleaning path and to clean the harvested material by removing the foreign bodies from the fruit; the cleaning being carried out by sending an airflow coming from above the moving path towards the harvested material.

A harvesting machine for harvesting fruit from the ground has a cart having a frame, which is movable in a moving direction and carries, connected to it in an integral manner, a fruit harvesting device having a harvesting member and wheels rolling on the ground and designed for the height positioning the harvesting member; the cart having a pair of front wheels and a pair of rear wheels; at least the front wheels being coupled to the frame by means of respective height-adjustable suspensions, each having a respective actuator; an electric-hydraulic command and control assembly being provided in order to adjust the height of the frame relative to the front wheels depending on the pressure of a chamber of at least one of the actuators and in order to rotate the frame around an instantaneous rotation axis, which is transverse to the moving direction, so as to adjust the load acting upon the positioning wheels and upon the front wheels.

Agricultural implements include equipment designed for harvesting, cleaning and storing farming produce. The farming produce it is designed to process particularly includes peanuts, beans or any other produce disposed in rows that can be gathered from the ground. The agricultural equipment can include a head (2), endowed with a collecting platform (3) with belts (5); with the head (2) including a transmission box (4) of the dual and pivotable type. The head (2) has complete hydraulic system with hydraulic oil tank (9), heat exchanger (9A) and filters, and the transmission box (4) further has an auxiliary input (11) to couple an accessory that can be hydraulic, pneumatic or electric, in order to drive auxiliary systems. In the rear part of the equipment are helicoids (6) that extend to the vertical transporter (7) and latter to the container (8).

An orchard sanitation implement disposes of unharvested nuts which may otherwise be utilized as habitat and food for navel orangeworms. Unharvested nuts are lifted from the orchard floor and delivered to a storage bin of the implement. Once received within the storage bin, the unharvested nuts are separated from other orchard debris by a looping belt which allows unharvested nuts to fall through, but other orchard debris is conveyed outside of the storage bin for deposit either into a container or back to the orchard floor. The unharvested nuts fall through openings in the looping belt, through an outlet at the bottom of the storage bin and into a shredding unit attached to the outlet. The shredding unit shreds and pulverizes the unharvested nuts into a composition which is too small to be utilized by navel orangeworms for habitat or a source of food.

Electronic soil coping system applied to a grain harvesting platform, able to adjust working height parameters during the collection process, adapting itself to soil irregularities and to those generated by uprooting, increasing the efficiency and reducing loss, enabling to combine belt collection at any time, individually, in pairs, or all of them jointly, generating different physical states, which will vary according to the number of belts of the device, also allowing the platform to perform tailpieces at street ends, not collecting undesired materials, and also allowing to increase the width of collection belts.