Farming Data Collection and Exchange System

A farming data exchange system, comprising:

• (a) a microprocessor;
• (b) a memory storage area for storing a user account, an electronic farming record for a farming business, a defined filtering set for message data, descriptive information about a farming operation land segment associated with the farming business, and a plurality of implement profiles each defining, for a known farming implement, a known manufacturer code, a known device class, a known version and a known communication protocol;
• (c) a network interface configured to receive the message data, position data and time data acquired by a remote relay device connected to a farming vehicle or farming implement while the farming vehicle or farming implement is used to perform a farming operation at the farming business;
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• (d) an application program having programming instructions that, when executed by the microprocessor, will cause the microprocessor to automatically:
• (i) extract content from the message data based on the defined filtering set and use the extracted content to determine that there is a match between the farming implement used to perform the farming operation and the known farming implement corresponding to one of the plurality of implement profiles,
• (ii) use the extracted content, the position data, the time data and the known communication protocol defined by said one of the plurality of implement profiles to determine a set of operating events for the farming operation,
• (iii) determine, based on the set of operating events, that at least one section of the farming implement was in a deactivated state during at least part of the farming operation,
• (iv) determine a travel path for the farming operation based on the deactivated state and the position and time data, and
• (v) record in the electronic farm record a travel path description for the farming operation;
• (e) wherein the travel path includes only areas of land on the farming operation land segment where the farming vehicle and farming implement traveled while the farming implement was not in the deactivated state, and does not include any areas of land on the farming operation land segment where the farming vehicle and the farming implement either (i) traveled while the farming implement was in the deactivated state, or (ii) did not travel during the farming operation.