People who live in farming communities tend to own machinery. They don't need advance notice any more than a typical suburbanite needs advance planning to drive a car somewhere.

Independent farmers in less-than-rich countries rent large harvesting machinery from common pools.

Source: me. I live amongst them.

EU is chucking subsidies to farmers to (among other things) spend on this kind of stuff all the time, around here it's not uncommon to see totally unproductive small farms with hundreds of thousands in tractors and machinery.

It's like social spending to keep people living in rural areas.