Map based farming for windrower operation

Abstract

One or more information maps are obtained by an agricultural system. The one or more information maps map one or more characteristic values at different geographic locations in a worksite. One or more in-situ sensors detect values of one or more characteristics and generate sensor data indicative of windrow shape quality or dry down as a mobile machine operates at the worksite. A predictive map generator generates a predictive map that maps predictive windrow shape quality values or predictive dry down values at different geographic locations in the worksite based on a relationship between the values in the one or more information maps and the windrow shape quality value indicated by the in-situ sensors or the dry down value indicated by the in-situ sensors. The predictive map can be output and used in automated machine control.