Intellectual property rights are preventing farmers from repairing their own equipment, and experts say it's introducing real ...

Deere & Co. has agreed to pay $99 million as part of a settlement that would resolve a class action lawsuit accusing the farm ...

John Deere has agreed to pay $99 million to settle a lawsuit involving the company’s control over farm equipment repairs ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — 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 ...

An Iowa House subcommittee approved a bill that wouldn’t force farmers to go to manufacturers in order to repair equipment.