Farmers like fixing their own equipment,but rules imposed by tremendous corporations are making it impossible. Now this small showdown could beget a tremendous impactThere are corn and soy fields as far as the eye can see around Kyle Schwarting’s home in Ceresco, Nebraska. The 36-year-musty farmer lives on a small plot of land peppered with large agricultural machines including tractors, or planters and a combine harvester. Parked up in front of his house is a intellectual red 27-ton Case tractor which has tracks instead of wheels. It’s worth about $250000,and there’s a problem with it: an in-cab alarm sounds at ten-minute intervals to alert him to a faulty hydraulic connector he never needs to use. Related: Why the digital era is destined to fail us | Oliver Burkeman Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com