A planting apparatus of nursery tree includes an auger, a guide member having a hollow tube shape, a blade member, sliders, and motors The auger, the guide member and the blade member form the nested structure of the three-layer which are centered upon the auger, and the auger and the blade member are rotation members rotating on the same vertical axis line. By such a constitution, desired planting hole can easily be excavated, and the ground around the excavated hole and a root clump of the nursery tree can be leveled, covered and pressed by the blade member without forming a gap while holding the nursery tree by the guide member not to be inclined.

A germination facility includes a seedling growing system configured to grow a plurality of seedlings; and a seedling sorting device configured to receive spatially variable planting data regarding a planting area for planting the seedlings; receive seedling data regarding the plurality of seedlings; and arrange the plurality of seedlings in a planting container based on the seedling data and on the planting data.

The transplant device is provided with; a first holding unit that holds a flat board-like culture medium in which a plurality of plants is planted in a row direction and column direction; a second holding unit that holds a flat board-like cultivation panel in which a plurality of holes for holding plants are arranged in the row direction and the column direction; a moving unit for moving the holding unit; a control unit that instructs the moving unit to move the holding unit; and a transplant unit that performs transplanting. In the transplant device, the control unit decides a transplant procedure from the culture medium to the holes of the cultivation panel based on a predetermined transplant algorithm so that a plant in the culture medium and a hole of the cultivation panel corresponding to the transplant procedure are aligned in a vertical direction when the transplanting is performed

The invention relates to a method in a seedling planting machine and to a seedling planting machine, in which seedlings are extracted from a seedling storage to be transferred to planting means of the planting machine. In the method the seedling storage is held in its place on a storage track of the planting machine supported by first holding elements, for example, by a first toothed bar, the seedling storage is transferred on the storage track of the planting machine by moving second holding elements, for example a second toothed bar, in relation to the first holding elements and to the storage track so that the seedling storage comes into contact with the second holding elements, the seedling storage is transferred to be supported by the second holding elements and the seedling storage is transferred a transfer distance forwards on the storage track, the seedling storage is transferred to be supported by the first holding elements, the seedling storage is detached from the second holding elements.

A sapling tray handling system for a transplanter comprising a track, a plurality of sapling trays, and a drive mechanism. The track is in the form of rectangular loop having four corners and four sides. The sapling trays are configured to traverse the track. The drive mechanism propels the plurality of sapling trays. Each corner of the rectangular track is configured to secure a sapling tray. The drive mechanism comprises four actuators with each actuator positioned at one of the four corners. Each actuator is configured to propel the sapling tray secured at the respective corner.

A sapling indexing unit for a transplanter, the sapling indexing unit comprising a channel track. An intermediary unit is movably coupled to the channel track. The intermediary unit comprises a plurality of tubes arranged vertically and each having a top and a bottom. A base frame is proximal to the bottom of the plurality of tubes and an aperture is defined by the base frame. A drive mechanism is configured to provide horizontal movement to the intermediary unit relative to the base frame and the aperture.

The present invention belongs to the autonomous and precision agriculture sector, and refers, more specifically, to a system for seedling planting machines with a focus on reforestation and forestry (silviculture) for mechanized planting, in areas of installation, renovation and/or recovery of degraded areas with minimal impact on the environment, self-propelled, which plants from 1,800 to 3,600 seedlings per hour, in a sliding and continuous system, with water or gel irrigation, guaranteeing the quality of planting with an intelligent system, which checks each seedling, evaluating whether there has been drowning of the collection, exposure of the substrate, if the seedling is inclined, indicating even if the seedling was not planted and where it happened, generating a planting map (KML) with the GPS position of each seedling.

An independently automated mechanical transplanter for dispensing seedlings into a furrow located in the ground or in a field. The transplanter includes at least one automated transplanter unit mounted to a transportable frame. A trundle is mounted to the transportable frame having a plurality of gripper fingers. Each automated transplanter unit has a seedling tray for presenting a plurality of seedlings to the trundle to grip and extract the seedlings from the seedling tray. The transplanter also includes a moveable conveyor belt having a plurality of pockets attached thereto; the trundle configured to transfer the plurality of seedlings into the plurality of pockets as the conveyor belt moves; and each individual pocket configured to open when positioned directly over a delivery chute for dropping the seedlings into a planting shoe for delivery into the open furrow.

There is provided a seedbed holding unit capable of reliably and firmly holding a seedbed with a simple structure, causing no damage to a plant. A seedbed holding unit 160 that holds a seedbed B used in plant cultivation includes a first holding member 170 and a second holding member 180 that are rotatable relative to each other about a predetermined rotation axis A, the first holding member 170 is provided with a first claw part 173 in a fixed state, the second holding member 180 is provided with a second claw part 183 in a fixed state, and the seedbed B is held between the first claw part 173 and the second claw part 183 by rotating the first holding member 170 and the second holding member 180 relative to each other.

The present disclosure provides generally for a system and method for planting flora, fauna, and dispersing various organisms through drone delivery. The system may comprise of a drone with seedling box that may hold and drop the pods containing flora or fauna. The seedling box may hold the pods with the flora or fauna in them and at specific intervals drop the pod with the flora or fauna. The seedling box may also hold various organisms or other materials and drop these organisms or materials when directed. A seedling box may comprise loading mechanism and deploying mechanism to facilitate accurate, timely deployment of the pods containing the seedlings. A pod may comprise a weighted tip with hollow cavity for seedling placement and a vertical rod for securing seedling during deployment. Where the system comprises uneven number of seedlings, seedling box may include counterweights to provide stability in configured flight patterns for duration of seedling deployment.