What’s wrong with this picture?

I saw this ad for Chevy while flipping through the most recent edition of Progressive Farmer.
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Then I did a triple-take. Look at the tires. Not only are they incredibly clean for a farm truck, but look at where they're sitting. 

 
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Right on the row. Bu-buy corn, Chevy's coming through.  

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Realistically, though, that truck was never in that field. The truck, complete with turned tires, was probably rendered from CAD files. The model, and he's very likely a model, may not have ever been in the field either.  All three may have been created separately and then stitched together in a program like Photoshop to create a final ad. And the person doing it may never have seen a corn field, let alone realized why driving on the crop was such a no-no.

This is why I pick alfalfa by hand and crawl under balers on shoots. Little details end up making a big difference in the final ad, especially when you're talking to people who run your equipment for a living.

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