The agricultural machine manufacturer has a subscription service that lets owners repair their own equipment. Why is barely ...

Owning a $500,000 tractor doesn't mean you can fix it. Welcome to John Deere's digital nightmare, where farmers resort to Ukrainian hackers just to repair equipment they legally own. This isn't ...

You wouldn’t think that farm equipment would turn into a battlefield for right-to-repair laws, but in 2017, anything is possible. American farmers are increasingly turning to hacked firmware in order ...

Early this week, tractor maker John Deere said it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the American Farm Bureau Federation, an agricultural trade group, promising to make it easier for ...

After a years-long battle, a national group that represents farmers has reached an agreement with John Deere that would make it easier to do many tractor repairs. The agreement has been widely ...

In fact, the craziness of this goes even further: In a 2015 letter to the United States Copyright Office, John Deere, the world’s largest tractor maker, said that ...

Only one state, Colorado, has passed legislation that allows farmers to repair farm machinery themselves. Michigan hopes to soon be another in the battle for the right to repair their own equipment.

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 ...

What started as a cleanup job turned into a longer tractor repair list. A practical day of farm machinery work and ...

Colorado has enacted the nation’s first state law guaranteeing farmers a right to repair tractors and other equipment themselves or at independent repair shops. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, ...

United States President Joe Biden will sign an executive order that restricts manufacturers from limiting farmers’ ability to repair their own property. News of the impending order was given by White ...