Across the farm belt, the cost of keeping modern machinery running has become a flashpoint, as growers push for the legal right to fix their own tractors instead of relying on expensive, tightly ...

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 ...

John Deere admitted no fault in the settlement but agreed to make repair equipment available to farmers and dealers for the ...

On April 6, Deere & Co. announced a settlement agreement resolving the “right-to-repair” litigation before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The company will pay $99 ...

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 ...

Farmers are waging a legal battle against what they say is Deere’s tight grip over repairs and the escalating costs of fixing ...

"Right-to-repair advocates say the digitization of agricultural equipment ... has made self-repair almost impossible, forcing ...

US farmers’ struggles for the right to fix their own, now highly computer-controlled equipment, have implications for us all It was one of the few pieces of cheery news to emerge from the war in ...

Missouri lawmakers are debating a series of right-to-repair bills that could reshape how consumers and farmers access tools, ...