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 ...
The lawsuit claims Deere prevents farmers from fixing their own equipment, resulting in higher prices.
Clint Stoutenburg leans over his John Deere planter to point out the complexities of the machine at his family farm in Sandusky, Michigan. He wants the right to fix his equipment because he finds ...
From his tractor dealership in Mountain Lake, Minnesota, Kyle Smith, owner of Midway Farm Equipment, dispatches his mechanics miles away to fix farmers' tractors — repairs requiring much more than a ...
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A N.C. Senate committee on Tuesday walked back a provision that would have made it easier for farmers to access diagnostic and repair tools for complicated electronic parts on their equipment. Here, ...
DENVER (AP) — On Colorado’s northeastern plains, where the pencil-straight horizon divides golden fields and blue sky, a farmer named Danny Wood scrambles to plant and harvest proso millet, dryland ...