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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
John Deere has already made it mostly impossible to work on their tractors. They have proprietary computer parts/chips and they store all kinds of information--how much is planted, what is planted, when it's planted. They don't share this info with the owners either. And the parts can't be replaced or overridden from what I've read. (People have tried and failed).
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I don't understand...Ok...so they could definitely have software that creates a timestamp of when and where the machine was run, and I guess they could weigh the amount of seed and approximate how much was planted, but how would they tell *what* is planted unless the farmer told them?
Shari