Patent ID: 8019517

Claim:
A forage harvester, comprising a plurality of working units; an input and display unit; a memory and evaluation unit; and a control unit for influencing adjustable parameters of said working units; wherein said memory and evaluation unit is configured to store at least one set criteria in a recallable manner, so that based on at least one parameter selected from the group consisting of a crop material parameter, an operating parameter and both that was determined in a harvesting process, and based on the at least one said criteria, a prognosis regarding an attainability of an actual harvesting goal is formulated and taken into account in an adjustment of the operating parameter by said control unit and, wherein said actual attainable harvesting goal to be implemented by use of said memory and evaluation unit so configured is a compactability of the crop material, which is conditioned upon a relationship between the crop material's type, the crop material's moisture content and the crop material's length.