Right to repair changes floated as frustrated farmers count cost of harvest delays

Peter Radford believes anyone who knows what they are doing should have the ability to repair agricultural machinery. (ABC Rural: Meg Powell)

To fix a fuse in a modern piece of farming machinery, farmer and contractor Peter Radford would have to pay a dealer-certified technician to attend his property in north-west Tasmania to diagnose the problem, and then fix it.

That fuse is worth about 15 cents, and it could be holding up a harvest worth thousands of dollars.