"Farmers have already told us that they’re buying older tractors to avoid the software repair restrictions that manufacturers like Deere put in place." https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxd8wy/the-used-tractor-market-is-far-wilder-than-the-used-car-market
@kyle
Good on them! Old ones last longer anyway.
@kyle Q: You practice a low-cost, low-labor method of growing food that requires no heavy machinery, fossil fuels, or processed chemicals . . . and yet achieves yields comparable to those of more "modern" scientific methods. That sounds almost like a dream come true. There must be people trying natural farming all over the place!
Fukuoka: Not really . . .
https://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/masanobu-fukuoka-zmaz82jazgoe