Both CNH Industrial and John Deere consider their technology stack, a set of technologies stacked together to build an application, central to their companies’ strategies for growth. The OEMs made high-level references illustrating their tech stacks in recent investor reports (see Fig. 1 and 2). 

CNH and Deere have been making acquisitions to support their tech stacks and further their autonomous capabilities. Deere bought Blue River Technology, a company that develops computer vision and machine…