Modern farming is extremely reliant on gps and ‘smart’ planters, fertilizers, etc. Using tech to precisely control exactly how much seed, chemicals, etc is used can result in significantly less costs. My understanding is that Deere has bought out basically every company that has a decent implementation of this technology and is an effective monopoly on modern farming equipment.
You can move away from them, but expect your business costs to significantly increase as a result.
These were so much better than the radio transmitters. That brief period where cars only had CD players, no AUX or Bluetooth was the worst.