Soil compaction reduction system and method

A soil compaction reduction system comprising:

• a non-transient computer-readable medium containing computer readable code to direct one or more processing units to:
• determine a path for a mobile machine through a field based upon a varying soil compaction characteristic of the mobile machine as the mobile machine traverses the field based upon a soil compaction constraint;
• and
• direct one or more processing units to vary compaction characteristic of the mobile machine as a mobile machine traverses the field along the determined path based upon the compaction constraint, wherein the path for the mobile machine is determined based upon received data regarding a commodity price for crops of the field, estimated crop yield reductions resulting from soil compaction for each of different available paths, and a non-yield cost for the different available paths, the non-yield cost for the different available paths comprising at least one cost selected from a group of costs consisting of:
• operational costs for the mobile machine free to the different available paths and time costs for each of the different available paths.

A method comprising:

• partitioning the field into the regions based upon soil compaction characteristics;
• determining a path for a mobile machine through the field based upon a varying soil compaction characteristic of the mobile machine as the mobile machine traverses the field based upon the soil compaction constraints;
• and
• selecting between a first group of at least one servicing mobile machine and a second group of at least one servicing mobile machine, different than the first group, for servicing the mobile machine along the determined path, the selection being based upon the soil compaction constraint.