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March 8, 2018 06:37 pm PST
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Vendor lock-in, DRM, and crappy EULAs are turning America's independent farmers into tenant farmers
"Precision agriculture" is to farmers as Facebook is to publishers: farmers who want to compete can't afford to boycott the precision ag platforms fielded by the likes of John Deere, but once they're locked into the platforms' walled gardens, they are prisoners, and the platforms start to squeeze them for a bigger and bigger share of their profits. (more…)
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