We are small organic farmers in central Illinois and feel lucky to not to have to deal directly with the nonsense going on in large-scale farming. I also don’t feel protected from the unbridled use of this information when it comes to USDA marketing forecasts. We have been overtaken by big ag with patented food, seed and GMO systems. My local truck repair guy laments all the roadblocks he faces from the manufacturers when he tries to fix vehicles.ģ I am an advocate of returning farmers’ rights to grow, harvest and make decisions accordingly. I find the “replace idea” much more agreeable than trying to move Deere in the direction I want.Ģ This is a power grab. There are already programs available like GPS that can be built for about $3,000 with RTK accuracy and no subscription payments. It’s well within our means to design and build our own display replacements. If we as farmers don’t like what the OEM has done, then we need an alternative to replace it. I’m starting to think that we need to move beyond right-to-repair and go straight to right to replace. The further down the electronics trail we went, the more complicated it got. If you would like to express your thoughts on the right-to-repair issue and have them added to this document, simply email them to Frank Lessiter at Right-to-Repair Issues Don’t Favor Farmersġ At one time there might have been an equitable solution to the right-to-repair issue, but we are obviously past that point.
Their comments have been separated into 11 dozen categories for easier reading on your part. When farmers were asked in an exclusive Lessiter Media email survey what they thought of the current right-to-repair issues, they didn’t hold back in voicing their opinions, feelings, thought and ideas.Īs you will see from the 133 write-in comments below, most of these growers don’t believe that what manufacturers and dealers are proposing in the right-to-repair situation is in the best interests of American agriculture. Here, the content leaders of the two divisions – and on each side of the chasm – express their respective audience’s arguments on this R2R debate. The content that follows presents a unique vantage point in all of agricultural media. Also, since 2004, Lessiter Media has owned and operated a separate business-to-business Farm Equipment Division, consisting today of Farm Equipment, Rural Lifestyle Dealer, Precision Farming Dealer and Ag Equipment Intelligence.
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