The research wants to present a global characterization of agricultural machines performances, considering the higher and higher importance which mechanization has in a modern agriculture. The paper refers to machines capacities, time efficiency, machine manoeuvrability, field patterns, field shape, crop and soil conditions and system limitations. The degree of accessibility is very high and the originality of the paper consists in a global presentation of the many aspects concerning the agricultural machines performances

machine capacity; time efficiency; machine manoeuvrability; field patterns

Presentation: oral