Kenney says the software barriers create corporate monopolies-and destroy the agrarian ethos of resiliency and self-reliance. You just direct the tractor/implement to the farm and watch it do its thing. This game is little tiny tractors and implements that you really dont drive. That’s the exclusive domain of authorized dealerships. I was expecting something like John Deere Drive Green. Big Tractor says farmers have no right to access the copyrighted software that controls every facet of today’s equipment, even to repair their own machines. By sheer dint of personal passion, he’s taking on John Deere and the other global equipment manufacturers in a bid to preserve mechanical skills on the American farm. Kenney leads a grassroots campaign in the heart of the heartland to restore a fundamental right most people don’t realize they’ve lost-the right to repair their own farm equipment. There are farmers, mechanics, and the odd politician or two who embrace him. He has allies here among the sellers and auctioneers of used tractors and aftermarket parts. The engineer, inventor, and inveterate manure-stirrer is trying to be discreet. It’s Husker Harvest Days, Nebraska’s biggest agricultural trade show, and Kevin Kenney is working the pavilions.
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