providing an agricultural machine having a task controller in communication with a plurality of operating elements over a communication bus of the agricultural machine for controlling operation of the operating elements according to a set of operating instructions to execute the agricultural operation with the agricultural machine;

using a validation system controller to transfer an operating file from an external device to the task controller of the agricultural machine, in which the operating file defines said set of operating instructions for the agricultural machine;

using the validation system controller to acquire performance information defining a performance of the one or more agricultural machines in execution of the set of operating instructions by the agricultural machine; and

comparing the performance information to the set of operating instructions defined in the operating file to determine that the agricultural operation has been executed according to the set of the operating instructions if the performance information corresponds to any of the operating instructions of the operating file.