Agricultural system and method for accounting for hill-drift steering during row guidance of harvesters

An agricultural method that accounts for hill-drift steering during row guidance of a harvester, the agricultural method comprising:

• receiving, with a computing system, location data generated by a location detecting system,
• the location data being indicative of a location of at least two points of the harvester,
• the at least two points being spaced apart from each other and from a front end of a header, and
• the header comprises a plurality of row dividers coupled to a header frame and spaced apart along a lateral direction of the header;
• receiving, with the computing system, data generated by a crop row sensor, the data being indicative of a distance of a row divider of the plurality of row dividers relative to a crop row;
• determining, with the computing system, an instantaneous heading of the harvester and an actual direction of travel of the harvester based at least in part on the location data;
• determining, with the computing system, an adjusted lateral offset of the row divider of the plurality of row dividers from the crop row based at least in part on the data generated by the crop row sensor and an angle between the instantaneous heading and the actual direction of travel;
• and
• performing, with the computing system, a control action associated with the harvester based at least in part on the angle between the instantaneous heading and the actual direction of travel;
• wherein the harvester comprises a main frame extending along a fore-aft direction and a header supported forward of the main frame along the fore-aft direction;
• and
• wherein the header delivers severed crop to a feeder of the harvester during a harvesting operation.