.. and the farmers with firmware experience?

"Farmers" aren't a monolithic lump of homogenous yokels with straw sticking out their teeth.

The Ukranian farming community birthed the cracked and reverse engineered John Deere software now being uploaded into US tractors by US farmers to bypass kill switches, for custom addons, data retention, etc.

#NotAllFarmers are SWEs, great welders, advanced diesel mechanics, pilots, ... but all these skillsets are within or closely adjacent to farming communities.