US Patent 11580609 Crop monitoring to determine and control crop yield

A method of predicting crop yield includes generating, via a processor, a plurality of vectors representative of growing conditions for a current time period and a plurality of vectors representative of growing conditions for a previous time period. The processor compares the plurality of vectors for the current time to the vectors of the previous time periods for corresponding growing conditions and determines which previous vectors are closest to the current vectors. The plurality of previous time periods are each associated with crop yields. Thus, the processor can determine a crop yield for the current time period for a selected crop producing field and crop type based on crop yields for the closest previous time periods.