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If agricultural equipment now poses a compaction risk, the dinosaurs were almost certainly causing problems. At the same time, however, animals of that size required a flourishing ecosystem to support them. "The potential for significant soil compaction by foraging sauropods seems incompatible with productive land that supported renewable vegetation for feeding these prehistoric herbivores," as the researchers put it.
I see a simple explanation to it: evolution of sauropods to get that big took plenty of time. In the same time, their ecosystems evolved, too.
The exact mechanisms are yet to be learned but evolving together, the ecosystems developed tolerance and/or resistance to soil compaction.
Which is not the case with harvesters - but humans surely can invent something to adress it.
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