Farming has gotten quite tech-savvy. These days, there are all sorts of Wi-Fi-enabled, app-controlled, and autonomously piloted machines out there doing the tilling and harvesting. The biggest player ...

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 ...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) – Students in Kansas can learn how to fix tractors free of charge at two community colleges through a tech program partnership with the manufacturing giant John Deere. The ...

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 ...

The simmering duel between farmers and agricultural machinery manufacturers over access to the software to unlock the DRM which excludes all but the manufacturer’s agents from performing repairs goes ...

Kyle Schwarting and his family have been farming in Nebraska for generations. Until a few years ago, Schwarting and other farmers could fix and upgrade their own large farm equipment, including ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... All across the heartland, farmers are getting their equipment ready for planting season. It’s a critical period; if you are going to maximize the value of ...

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, ...