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 ...

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 ...

Armstrong said that Grube’s lifelong partnership with wife, Dawn, extends beyond the farm shop to the tractor shed: “In the ...

Zimmey’s Tractor Repair LLC is a trusted tractor and farm equipment repair shop located in Myerstown, Pennsylvania along Route 501 north of Schaefferstown. Specializing in John Deere agricultural and ...

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 ...

For more than a few years now, we’ve been covering the saga of tractors from the larger manufacturers on which all components are locked down by software to the extent that they can only be replaced ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The situation that 'only the manufacturer can repair the product' is common not only for electronic devices but also for cars and agricultural machinery. There are increasing calls for 'right to ...