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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2022
Cnh Industrial America Llc, New Holland, PA (US);
Brittany Schroeder, Bunker Hill, IN (US);
CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);
Abstract
An agricultural system includes a vehicle configured to perform one or more passes across a field, and a field characteristics sensor supported on the vehicle, spaced apart from a surface of the field during the one or more passes, with the field characteristics sensor being configured to generate data indicative of at least one characteristic of the field below the surface of the field. Further, the agricultural system includes an actuator selectively controllable to move the field characteristics sensor relative to the vehicle. Moreover, the agricultural system includes at least one distance sensor supported on the vehicle and configured to generate distance data indicative of a distance between the field characteristics sensor and the surface of the field. Additionally, the agricultural system includes a computing system configured to receive the distance data and initiate a control action based at least in part on the distance data.