I've got a broken combine harvester – manufacturer won't give me software key
Farming machinery and all heavy equipment/large capital investment items are moving to a use based model. Manufacturer raises debt (his cost of capital is low), builds and leases machines to the customer. Customer pays per ton of grain harvested, per hole drilled, per cubic metre of rock crushed etc. As a farmer why would you want to pay for a machine that is idle most of the year outside of harvest time?