Jared Wilson

On my lineage, I'm at least a seventh generation farmer on my father's side.

So we've been doing this for a while.

You know, in the 90s, we didn't have a lot of electronic control units on these machines.

Mechanical fuel pumps, everything was mechanical.

So you touch something and it has linkage and it's controlling something mechanical.

And now in these machines, when you touch something, everything is electric over some system, electric over hydraulic, if you will, electric over engine controls.

And that means that there's software that you're dealing with.

One of the simplest things that comes to mind is auto steer, right?

These tractors, we can create lines in the field and they'll drive themselves.

And when you're on a machine for 20 hours and you don't have to steer it, you're in a lot better shape when you get off of it than you are hand driving the machine.

If anything is not working correctly on the emission system, if you have a sensor, for instance, that has failed or malfunctioned, it won't perform the necessary emissions operations to satisfy the system, and it will do something called a derate of the machine.

You know, the terminals inside of the machine might give you an error code, but very rarely does that error code actually tell you what's wrong.

You have to have an external piece of software to plug into the machine to figure it out.

So I was forced to call the dealership out.

They came out and replaced, I think, one of the Delta pressure sensors.

And that didn't end up fixing the problem.

But the logistics of that mean that the technician comes out.

You may have to wait a day or two before there's a technician available.

The soybeans, we'd had a dry year and you could stand in the field and you could hear the pods opening and the soybeans hitting the ground.

So you can imagine how sick to your stomach that makes you.