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 days of home tractor repair are coming to an end with machinery technology and tightening intellectual property restrictions meaning farmers are forced to pay big bucks to fix their machinery.

A filing Tuesday by the Department of Justice (DOJ) urged a federal court in Illinois not to throw out a class action suit that consolidated several farmers’ lawsuits against John Deere over repair ...

Doug Hall had a busy afternoon planned tilling a field on his 4,000-acre farm in Brunswick, Nebraska, so he could plant soybeans. But when he tried to fire up his new Case IH tractor, the engine ...

Colorado has enacted the nation’s first state law guaranteeing farmers a right to repair tractors and other equipment themselves or at independent repair shops. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, ...

Farmers in North Dakota and the rest of the country are monitoring an evolving legal case against a giant equipment manufacturer and they said repair restrictions are not the only service headaches ...

An Internal Revenue Service agent red-flagged a $7,800 tractor repair, entered the home of a Texas farming couple, sat in their kitchen for two full days, and combed through three years of financial ...

Trinity Dale Wells is a cattle farmer on a small farm of about 150 acres he leases in Franklin County in northwest Alabama. Wells has owned John Deere tractors his whole life. Last year the stop ...