Oh yeah, I mean obviously plenty of people are still using the old-school stuff but the top of the line equipment is super complex (and you can pay easily half a million dollars for a new combine, one among many reasons why farmers are almost always in debt)

The thing about writing Nine is I have all the imagery and no actual characters/plot, so until that....idk, appears to me in a dream or something, I'm a little stuck. I'll keep poking around though.