Farmers in Nebraska, Minnesota, Massachusetts, and New York are staging something of a mechanical revolt. They're attempting to get legislation passed in their states ...

Virginia farmer John Boyd Jr. calls for right to repair his own equipment, saying manufacturers' repair limits keep farmers ...

The right to repair agreement would apply to tractors, combines, tillage equipment, and some off-road vehicles used in agriculture. Image: dvande (Shutterstock) A battle for progressive tech has been ...

When Missouri farmer Jared Wilson’s equipment system malfunctioned, he was unable to test the hydraulic pressure himself because he didn’t have access to John Deere’s software diagnostic tool. He had ...

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 ...

Volunteers fix all sorts of items at events like this one hosted by the Cville TimeBank Repair Cafe in Charlotteville, Va. in fall 2018. Replacing your phone screen, turning the rotors on your car and ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than a few years now, we’ve been covering the saga of tractors from the larger manufacturers on which all components are locked down by software to the extent that they can only be replaced ...

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 ...