Maybe I haven't noticed this since I got inoculated against this notion by the reality of farmers early on. It still seems surprising to me that this idea can

Maybe I haven't noticed this since I got inoculated against this notion by the reality of farmers early on. It still seems surprising to me that this idea can survive more than five seconds of thought. Farmers own tracts of land, lots of equipment, and have to navigate the market for their product, financing, capital allocation, weather patterns, all sorts of random events. They frequently have dozens of employees, and constantly have to negotiate with those, and with customers, and with vendors. All of this is in addition to the actual growing of crops. It seems like the most natural thing in the world that this type of person won't take kindly to being dictated to by John Deere (doesn't mean it doesn't happen anyway) and would try their hand at a bit of hacking if needs must.