Usually the word “hacking” implies breaking into someone else’s data, but farmers are having to hack their own farm equipment just to keep it running, reports Freethink. Companies like John Deere ...

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 ...

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 ...

Not only is proprietary software an issue with John Deere, it's a problem that could affect your car, as well. Cars are Andrew's jam, as is strawberry. After spending years as a regular ol' car ...

The agency clarified in an announcement that the Clean Air Act does not block farmers’ right to repair equipment.

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 ...

Jake Lieb stands by his John Deere planter March 18 on his farm near Monticello, Ill. Deere signed a memorandum of understanding last year that should help farmers like Lieb and independent repair ...

Deere & Co. unfairly forces farmers to visit authorized dealers to repair their equipment, resulting in higher prices than if they could fix it themselves or get help from independent shops, the ...

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DENVER — 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 corn ...

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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, ...