"Equipment only breaks down when you use it. And everyone's using their equipment at the same time." ...

John Deere owners should soon feel free to fix their own machines. The Federal Trade Commission and several state attorneys general have secured a “right to repair” settlement with farming equipment ...

A multistate agreement involving John Deere and Co. may create new opportunities for independent repair businesses in Georgia ...

Across the US, farmers have spent years quietly hacking their own tractors, downloading bootleg software to bypass repair restrictions imposed by manufacturers like John Deere. In 2018, we headed to ...

The issue at hand was a dispute between the Federal Trade Commission and tractor/farm equipment manufacturing company John Deere, and, specifically, a suit filed jointly by the FTC and five states ...

After more than a decade of pushback, farmers and repair advocates have won access to equipment and services John Deere had long kept under its control.

Minnesota and four other states joined the Federal Trade Commission in settling a high-profile lawsuit against Deere & ...

Long time readers will have followed the twists and turns of the John Deere repair saga, in which the agricultural machinery manufacturer has used DRM to restrict the repair of its tractors. It may be ...

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 ...

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating tractor manufacturer John Deere over long standing allegations that Deere makes its farm equipment hard to repair. The investigation has been ongoing ...

Senator Elizabeth Warren accused the company of potentially violating the Clean Air Act by omitting information about repairs in its manuals. Senator Elizabeth Warren accused the company of ...