A farmer may pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a new tractor, but one thing not included in that price is the right to repair it. To fix modern machinery you need more than parts. As Harvest Public Media’s Grant Gerlock explains, farmers are lobbying to be able to buy the software they need to get back under the hood.
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