Ignore the emoji for second. The lawsuit would not be any different (save for a less funny headline) if the farmer had responded "okay" or "affirmative" or "alr

Ignore the emoji for second. The lawsuit would not be any different (save for a less funny headline) if the farmer had responded "okay" or "affirmative" or "alright". The farmer's arguing he responded to the request to read the contract, the flax seller is arguing they were responding to the contract itself. Nobody involved is asserting that that the emoji itself was ambiguous, merely what it was in response to.