Field opening and breakthrough pass generation and control

A computer implemented method, comprising:

• computing a metric indicative of whether an agricultural harvester has capacity to complete a first field opening pass in a field without unloading harvested material from the agricultural harvester;
• if the metric indicates that the agricultural harvester has capacity to complete the first field opening pass in the field without unloading harvested material from the agricultural harvester, generating a first control signal to control a controllable system based on the metric;
• and
• if the metric indicates that the agricultural harvester has insufficient capacity to complete the first field opening pass in the field without unloading harvested material from the agricultural harvester, generating a second control signal to control a controllable system based on the metric.

An agricultural system, comprising:

• an agricultural harvester having a clean grain tank;
• a path planning system configured to generate a pass indicator indicative of a breakthrough pass in a field for the agricultural harvester;
• a processing system configured to generate a metric value indicative of whether the agricultural harvester can complete the breakthrough pass without unloading the clean grain tank on the agricultural harvester;
• and
• an output generator configured to generate a control signal based on the metric value.