‘Preserve the stuff we own’: how right-to-repair laws are surging across the US

‘Farmers have been fixing their own equipment as long as they have been farming …,’ said Aaron Lehman, a fifth-generation farmer. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Aaron Lehman is the fifth generation to run his family farm in central Iowa. He uses six tractors and grows corn, soybeans, oats and hay on 500 acres.

He enjoys it because “the time you put in, the money you put in, the things you learn can be put to immediate use to benefit your farm and benefit your family”, Lehman, 58, said.