Modelling the readiness of soil for different methods of tillage

摘要

While research has been conducted on the workability and trafficability of soils separately, it is the combination of these two factors which allows a decision to be made about a field's readiness for a given operation. Knowledge about when a field is ready for an operation is essential when planning when and where operations should be executed, so that they can be executed in an efficient and cost-effective way. In this paper, methods for evaluating workability and trafficability were combined to produce a novel decision support tool for assessing the readiness of a location for tillage operations over a period of time.