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Farmers can fix most things on their farm. This is true for machines, fences, structures, animals, etc. Their ingenuity and hard work is how they survive. The a
by kokanator 5y ago
Farmers can fix most things on their farm. This is true for machines, fences, structures, animals, etc. Their ingenuity and hard work is how they survive. The ability to take advantage of weather windows as well as harvest and sow at the appropriate times allows them to maximize their output.
Being required to wait around burning days waiting on some specialized technician who can charge exorbitant fees does not work.
Give farmers access to the appropriate parts and resources and they will make their machines function and operate.
- ykevinator2 5y agoThey do have access, just not with deere. So stop buying Deere.
- busterarm 5y agoSure, you can buy Kubota or Massey Ferguson but in many areas of the US with active farmland, you'll have to drive many hundreds of miles to even find a dealer to support these brands. John Deere is ubiquitous.
- BiteCode_dev 5y agoBut I was under the impression from other comments farmers could fix anything themself, so why can't they fix Kubota machines?
- busterarm 5y agoI'm not talking about fixing Kubota machines. I'm talking about availability to buy add-ons and parts. Tractors are multi-functional pieces of equipment that you buy attachments for. Just look at the huge list of implements here: https://www.kubotausa.com/products/tractors/utility/m4-series https://www.kubotausa.com/products/tractors/utility/m4-serie... So great, you bought a Kubota. Your nearest Kubota dealer can end up being 400 miles from you. They don't ship these things, you come buy and pick them up.
- BiteCode_dev 5y agoMake sense thanks.
- kokanator 5y agoI will assume your comment was sincere. No one said farmers are not able to repair other brands. The point is not all dealers/part suppliers are within a geographically reasonable distance. Think in hundreds and hundreds of miles or states away. Not just the other side of town. John Deere on the other hand has rather dense distribution by comparison.
- jevoten 5y agoVoting with your wallet seldom works if the only organization permitted on the buyer's side is individual. As other posters have noted, there's a great deal of lock-in and local monopolies. On the other hand, if Deere wants a market without right-to-repair requirements, they can simply not sell in the US. Voting with their feet, as it were.
- ghastmaster 5y agoWithout government intervention wouldn't the headline eventually be, "US Farmers Organize to Form Open Source Tractor Manufacturing Group"?
- sofixa 5y agoNo? Maybe in one of a million parallel universes, but it's not something that's realistic. Tractor manufacturing isn't a light thing to take to, and is rather out of scope for farmers ( the same way that ISPs don't manufacture the vans used by their techs).