Editing Farm (section)

==Farm equipment==
{{main|Agricultural machinery}}
Farm equipment has evolved over the centuries from simple hand tools such as the [[Hoe (tool)|hoe]], through ox- or horse-drawn equipment such as the plough and [[Harrow (tool)|harrow]], to the modern highly technical machinery such as the [[tractor]], [[baler]] and [[combine harvester]] replacing what was a highly labour-intensive occupation before the [[Industrial Revolution]]. Today much of the farm equipment used on both small<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/06/automated_farm_equipment_and_small_scale_farmers_.html|title=Big Bots in Little Agriculture|first=Marie|last=Lawrence|date=1 June 2012|journal=Slate}}</ref> and large farms is automated (e.g. using [[satellite]] guided farming).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://robohub.org/from-precision-farming-to-autonomous-farming-how-commodity-technologies-enable-revolutionary-impact/|title=From precision farming to autonomous farming: How commodity technologies enable revolutionary impact – Robohub|website=robohub.org}}</ref>

As new types of high-tech farm equipment have become inaccessible to farmers that historically fixed their own equipment, ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' magazine reports there is a growing backlash,<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2015/02/new-high-tech-farm-equipment-nightmare-farmers/|title=New High-Tech Farm Equipment Is a Nightmare for Farmers|magazine=Wired|last1=Wiens|first1=Kyle}}</ref> due mostly to companies using [[intellectual property]] law to prevent farmers from having the legal right to fix their equipment (or gain access to the information to allow them to do it).<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/|title=We Can't Let John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership|magazine=Wired|last1=Wiens|first1=Kyle}}</ref> This has encouraged groups such as [[Open Source Ecology]] and Farm Hack<ref>A worldwide community of farmers that build and modify our own tools. http://farmhack.org/app/</ref> to begin to make [[open source hardware]] for agricultural machinery. In addition on a smaller scale [[FarmBot|Farmbot]]<ref>Open source [[CNC]] farming http://go.farmbot.it/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150603053601/http://go.farmbot.it/ |date=2015-06-03 }}</ref> and the [[RepRap]] open source [[3D printer]] community has begun to make open-source farm tools available of increasing levels of sophistication.<ref>Pearce, J.M.(2015). [https://www.academia.edu/11979875/Applications_of_Open_Source_3-D_Printing_on_Small_Farms Applications of Open Source 3-D Printing on Small Farms]. ''Organic Farming'' 1(1), 19–35. DOI: 10.12924/of2014.01010019</ref>