Cnh Industrial America LLC

Nathan R Drzal

Jason L Shonk

Systems and methods disclosed provide for hay and forage workflow mapping. The system includes an agricultural vehicle, a sensor array, and a control system communicatively coupled to the agricultural vehicle. The sensor array includes one or more sensors that collect cutting data corresponding to a crop cutting operation, raking data corresponding to a crop raking operation, and gathering data corresponding to a crop gathering operation. The control system includes processing circuitry. The system receives the cutting data and generates a cutting map therefrom. Using the cutting map, the system generates a proposed raking path for the crop raking operation. The system also receives the raking data and generates a raking map therefrom. Using the raking map, the system generates a proposed gathering path for the crop gathering operation. Additionally, the system receives the gathering data and generates a gathering map therefrom. Successive proposed paths are generated from previously generated mappings.

Systems and methods for hay and forage workflow mapping

An agricultural harvester includes a header and a cab for an operator of the harvester. The header includes a frame, a support arm connected to the frame and a harvesting reel assembly. The harvesting reel assembly includes a central rotatable shaft connected to the support arm, a reel member extending widthwise across the harvesting reel assembly and connected to the central rotatable shaft for rotation therewith, and a first cam assembly rotatable about a first end of the central rotatable shaft. The first cam assembly includes a first cam plate, a first non-circular cam track for guiding rotation of the reel member and a first adjustor. The first adjustor is operatively engaged with the first cam plate and pivotably connected to the support arm for adjusting a rotational position of the first cam assembly relative to the central rotatable shaft.

Cam track adjustment assembly for a harvesting reel

An agricultural vehicle includes a chassis; a header carried by the chassis and including a cutter mechanism, the header being adjustable in a vertical direction; a swath roller carried by the chassis behind the header; a roller actuator connected to the swath roller and configured to adjust the swath roller in the vertical direction; and a controller coupled to the roller actuator. The controller is configured for: detecting when the header raises in the vertical direction; recording a header raising point where the header raises; determining when the swath roller reaches the header raising point; and signaling the roller actuator to raise the swath roller when the swath roller reaches the header raising point.

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Narvon, PA, United States of America

Nathan R Drzal