The fight for our right to repair the stuff we own has suffered a huge setback. As anyone who repairs electronics knows, keeping a device in working order often means fixing both its hardware and ...

Minnesota debates right-to-repair bills as tractor makers, farm groups seek amends In January, the Farm Bureau struck a deal with John Deere to open their computer codes to independent mechanics to ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The high price of food at the grocery store may have you wondering what is going on at America's farms? When you ask farmers if anything can be done to make their lives easier, one ...

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The 'right to repair' movement has finally bent the ear of Australia's competition and consumer watchdog, the ACCC, in its pleas to be able to fix their own farm equipment. The humble tractor is now ...

Farm-implement manufacturer Claas of America signed a memorandum of understanding last week with the American Farm Bureau Federation that gives U.S. farmers the right to repair Claas tractors, ...

Last summer, Walter Schweitzer had set out to bale his field of dry hay, and was moving quickly to beat the rain when his tractor broke down. The Montana farmer couldn’t figure out what had ...

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 ...