When FarmVille came out, I started wondering how I could leverage the help to man my real farm. People were jumping at the chance to do the work for free, it seemed only logical to capitalize on it. I never did find a solution, but I still believe there is one looming out there.
I'm pretty sure a real farm doesn't have much to do with FarmVille, except for the names and some concepts.
And besides, writing an algorithm to do what people do on FV is easy enough. The hard parts on a farm is data acquisition,
crunching it (which requires experts to write software for) and the manual labor.
