The literal reputation gate was removed, but the cost in Fangorn Leaves is still 100 per recipe. If a farmer wished to have even the two basic recipes (one for the field, one for the crop), and skipped the third, that's still 200 leaves - which by my math gets that farmer pretty high in rep anyway, perhaps even all the way to Ally (especially if the farmer wants all three recipes).

So... yeah, Turbine devs, it's still kinda technically rep gated. Just saying.

Also, the only current apparent use of the farm field is the dye recipe, which itself is still rep gated anyway, so...

You guys could at least throw us a bone by putting in a task board in Entwood, or something.