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 ...

What do pissed off farmers and broken McFlurry machines have to do with each other? More than you’d think. Both are part of the story behind the modern right-to-repair movement. In this episode, Jason ...

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, ...

For the mechanically minded operator, it’s often possible to carry out minor repairs in the farm workshop. But with tractors getting ever more complex, there’s an increasing number of jobs that ...

Rather than rely on and wait for authorized company representatives to make expensive phone calls, some tractor owners are callling local “technicians” who are allegedly using hacked firmware that was ...

Tractors are a major expenditure on the farm, and breakdowns can leave you with a big mechanic’s bill. There are some ways, however, that you can try to avoid costly breakdowns by keeping your machine ...

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 ...

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