'Agricultural equipment, system and method for monitoring soil characteristics during agricultural operations and controlling agricultural instruments

摘要

The present invention relates to tillage equipment comprising a frame operatively supporting tillage instruments and a soil monitoring system comprising instrumentation supported operationally from the frame and arranged to detect soil criteria before, after or Before and after soil is cultivated by tillage tools. The detected soil criterion is at least one of the surface residue criteria, soil nodule size criteria and soil breakage criteria.