Farmers in Nebraska, Minnesota, Massachusetts, and New York are staging something of a mechanical revolt. They're attempting to get legislation passed in their states ...

United States farmers have fought John Deere hard over the right to repair their six-figure pieces of equipment. For years, the ag manufacturer has set up software locks that can only be disabled by ...

MOLINE, Illinois — John Deere is recalling 5,500 lawn and garden tractors for a repair because a blade could injure bystanders when the tractor is in reverse, according to the Consumer Product Safety ...

The right to repair agreement would apply to tractors, combines, tillage equipment, and some off-road vehicles used in agriculture. Image: dvande (Shutterstock) A battle for progressive tech has been ...

When Missouri farmer Jared Wilson’s equipment system malfunctioned, he was unable to test the hydraulic pressure himself because he didn’t have access to John Deere’s software diagnostic tool. He had ...

US farmers will have the right to repair tractors and other agricultural equipment from John Deere without having to use the manufacturer’s own parts and facilities, under an agreement the company ...

“When people hear about the right to repair, they say, ‘Oh my God, my dishwasher was broken and I couldn’t get it fixed. My cellphone was broken and it cost me an arm and a leg,” Gay Gordon-Byrne, ...

Waco, Tx (FOX44) – Thirty teams of high school students gathered at TSTC Wednesday to compete in repairing tractors. The wrenches were out as the teams worked to figure out what had been done to the ...

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Last summer, Walter Schweitzer had set out to bale his field of dry hay, and was moving quickly to beat the rain when his tractor broke down. The Montana farmer couldn’t figure out what had ...