Methods for improved agricultural procedures

A method for dynamically changing a path to improve safety during a work operation in an agricultural field comprising:

• providing an agricultural vehicle equipped with an obstacle detection system;
• moving the agricultural vehicle through the agricultural field according to a mission plan executing on a processor associated with the agricultural vehicle;
• detecting an obstacle near the agricultural vehicle;
• identifying unworked passes in the mission plan a distance from the obstacle detected near the agricultural vehicle;
• and
• navigating the agricultural vehicle to work the identified unworked passes.

A method for dynamically changing a path to reduce disruptive noise during a work operation in an agricultural field comprising:

• providing an agricultural vehicle equipped with a global positioning system and a processor;
• loading zoning information at the processor, the zoning information indicative of locations of homes and businesses near the agricultural field;
• moving the agricultural vehicle through the agricultural field according to a mission plan executing on the processor, the mission plan specifying a plurality of passes to be worked in the agricultural field;
• detecting a structure near the agricultural field using the zoning information;
• determining a current time of day;
• comparing the current time of day to a range of acceptable work times;
• and
• if the current time of day is outside the range of acceptable work times, identifying unworked passes in the mission plan a distance from the detected structure near the agricultural field and navigating the agricultural vehicle to work the identified unworked passes.