John Deere is empowering farmers with enhanced self-repair capabilities through a suite of digital tools designed to keep ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (CN) — John Deere is illegally monopolizing the U.S. tractor repair industry, according to a class action antitrust lawsuit filed in Chicago federal court on Wednesday. The suit alleges that, ...

Farmers say their lives would be easier if tractor and combine manufactures didn't tightly control the tools and software needed to fix them.

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2016 - Today’s tractors have an incredibly versatile tool that would have been unheard of in previous iterations of equipment: screens. Screens that can display information about ...

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 ...

American farmers face mounting expenses not only from seed and fertilizer but also from costly repair restrictions that keep them reliant on manufacturers. Many say these limits prevent them from ...

The iconic image of the American farmer is the man or woman who works the land, milks cows and is self-reliant enough to fix the tractor. But like a lot of mechanical items, tractors are increasingly ...

Farmers often can’t repair tractors and other equipment without going through the manufacturer or a certified dealer.

A new tractor often costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, but not included in that price: the right to repair it. That has put farmers on the front lines of a battle pitting consumers against the ...

The software in Peter Ripka’s $120,000 tractor gave him an error code and cut the engine to 50% capacity, and Ripka couldn’t figure out why. He was locked out ...