Farmers who own Deere tractors and combines gained new legal ground on July 8, 2026, when the Federal Trade Commission and ...

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 ...

Minnesota and four other states joined the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in settling a high-profile lawsuit against Deere & ...

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 ...

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.

A quick repair on the tractor turns into a tougher fix when the machine starts fighting back. Real farm work means solving ...

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 ...

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, ...