A right to repair: why Nebraska farmers are taking on John Deere and Apple

Farmer and technician Kyle Schwarting,
from Ceresco, Nebraska, in the cab of
his Case IH tractor. 

Our consumptive behaviour has played a key role in the worsening of climate change.

We are seduced in the consuming more through seductive marketing or planned obsolescence that makes further consumption unavoidable and, of course, corporations richer.

But there is something new that has riled many American farmers - they are being locked out of applying their traditional skills of repairing the machinery used to make their farms both productive and profitable.

Read Olivia Solon’s story on The Guardian - “A right to repair: why Nebraska farmers are taking on John Deere and Apple.”