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Legislation in Colorado addresses farmers' machinery repair struggles, impacting consumers' wallets, leading to a potential nationwide "right to repair" movement.
Farmers, consumers
The full transcript provides a detailed insight into the challenges farmers face with complex machinery maintenance and the implications for consumers' expenses. Viewing the full transcript offers a comprehensive understanding of the significance of the "right to repair" movement in the agricultural sector.
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Well, howdy there, internet people, it's Bo again.
So today we are going to talk about some legislation
that was just signed by the governor in Colorado
and farmers and tractors and an issue
that not a lot of people know about,
but it has almost certainly impacted your wallet
at some point, so what's going on?
farms today they are dependent on machinery, on heavy machinery. Some of
this machinery is incredibly complex. Some of it seems to be intentionally
complex to the point where the farmer can't fix it themselves. And many would
say that there was concerted effort by manufacturers to keep it hard to fix.
As manufacturers, they want to provide that service, you know, they want to fix it.
There were situations where parts were unavailable, tools were unavailable, software in some cases
literally impossible to get.
Now all of this sounds annoying, right?
But here's the thing.
If you have to go through some approved provider to fix your equipment and your equipment goes
down during harvest time and that provider can't get there for a week, two weeks, three
weeks in some cases.
That harvest is in trouble.
Farmer loses money and you pay a whole lot more.
This legislation aims to fix that.
Tools, parts, manuals, software, according to the legislation, must be provided.
This was primarily pushed through by the Democratic Party.
It did have some Republican support and I don't want to make this seem like a partisan
issue because there really was Republican support, some Republican support on this.
A lot were opposed to it because they were kind of stuck between their rural constituents,
know the people they're supposed to represent and the manufacturers. So what
happens from here? My guess is it's just gonna end up in court. Manufacturers are
not happy about this. They have suggested some stuff that just seems a little silly
and some stuff I mean it may have an actual case. You know one of the things
they said is you know if you give the farmer tools well then they might be
able to skirt emission standards. Okay sure I don't know that that's a huge
concern there but they also talked about how some of the software might have
proprietary stuff in it that may actually end up in court that that seems
a whole lot more likely to result in a court battle.
I think by the end of this, what will occur is farmers will have the right to repair their
own equipment, which is kind of what this overall movement is called, by the way, right
to repair.
And I think over time, companies will stop putting proprietary software into things or
they will keep their, the components that are proprietary.
Maybe that can only be done through a special provider.
But it has to be done in a certain amount of time.
My guess is by the time this is all said and done, there's going to be a compromise on
certain aspects of it, but this is the first state to actually get something like this
passed and signed.
There are pushes to get this done in, I'm going to guess a dozen states.
Somewhere in there, somewhere around there.
And there's been talk of something similar at the federal level as well.
We'll just have to wait and see how it all plays out, but like many things, once that
first piece of legislation goes through, you often start to see it elsewhere. So
if you are a farmer outside of Colorado who has been dealing with this, hang in
there. Help may be coming. Anyway, it's just a thought. Y'all have a good day.
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