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 ...

CHICAGO (CN) — John Deere is illegally monopolizing the U.S. tractor repair industry, according to a class action antitrust lawsuit filed in Chicago federal court on Wednesday. The suit alleges that, ...

Engineering students from Bicton College in Devon worked through the night recently as part of their 24-hour tractor rebuild marathon. The students refurbished a 1967 David Brown 880 Selectomatic ...

VINITA, Okla. — The veil is thin between what Rick Johnson sees in a tractor engine and how he sees the rest of the world. Rick’s Tractor Repair, an independent farm machinery repair shop south of ...

MOLINE, Illinois — John Deere is recalling 5,500 lawn and garden tractors for a repair because a blade could injure bystanders when the tractor is in reverse, according to the Consumer Product Safety ...

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 ...

Michael Stead receives funding for The Repair Shop 2049 project from the EPSRC ESRC Impact Accelerator Digital Futures scheme at Lancaster University. Paul Coulton receives funding from EPSRC for ...