Abstract: A method and apparatus for evaluating farming equipment with respect to geographic details for a field on which the equipment will be operated without requiring the equipment to be purchased and/or taken to the actual field. Specifications about equipment can be retrieved from a database of equipment and used for creating a path plan for an agricultural field. Optionally, the path plan can be created based in part on a longest straight edge of the agricultural filed and/or by clustering of elevation contours such that the path plan is arranged whereby a group of similar elevations are traversed before a group of other similar elevations are traversed.