An agricultural system for harvesting a forage crop material, includes: a first agricultural work equipment for controllably harvesting the forage crop material, the first agricultural work equipment including: a first forage processing assembly; a first control system including: a first forage processing assembly condition sensor configured for sensing a first actual condition of the first forage processing assembly and thereby for outputting a first actual condition signal associated with the first actual condition of the first forage processing assembly; a first controller operatively coupled with the first forage processing assembly condition sensor and the first forage processing assembly and configured for: receiving the first actual condition signal; determining a first adjustment signal based at least in part on the first actual condition signal and at least one first predicted forage crop material condition associated with a first forage processing operation; outputting the first adjustment signal and thereby for initially adjusting, prior to beginning the first forage processing operation, a first device of the first forage processing assembly.