John deer tractors digitally brick themselves if you replace a part without authorisation. Most modern Ag machinery will be gone. Modern farms don't plant seed

John deer tractors digitally brick themselves if you replace a part without authorisation. Most modern Ag machinery will be gone. Modern farms don't plant seed from their last harvest, specialised farms cultivate seeds, and 'normal' farms buy them and plants them - that system will be gone. Most agrochemicals will be gone. Is your plan to give a random joe a field and a hoe? They will get maybe 30% of the yield a proffeshional farmer would. That means a famine. And they will be unavaliable for any other much-nessesary construction and repair work, because without specialised equipment it's weeks of back-breaking work just to harvest 1 field of potato. Average person does not even know the difference between a potato seed and a potato tuber, let alone the optimal varieties, time for planting, etc. Which will be impossible anyway, because the infrastructure is gone. And because you will have random idiots planting potato without any knowledge of disease and pest control, they will run rampant and cause famine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)