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 ...

President Donald Trump introduced the 'Product of the USA' food label and new initiatives to support farmers at the White House. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins details efforts to reduce ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...