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| FTC chairman announces settlement with John Deere to let farmers fix their own equipment again |
| 2026-07-10 |
| [NotTheBee] President Trump, restoring sanity little bits at a time. This time for American farmers. Yes, that's right. Like many companies these days, John Deere has created a complex and expensive system where owners must rely on them for repairs to the machines they purchase. But the "Right to Repair" movement is gaining steam. From the FTC's press release: The Federal Trade Commission, along with five states, secured an important settlement in an antitrust lawsuit against farm equipment manufacturer Deere & Company that will ensure farmers can enjoy the right to repair their own John Deere tractors and farm equipment. For the next decade, Deere will be required to give farmers and independent repair shops "the same equipment repair resources, including applicable software capabilities" as its stealerships - err, dealerships. 'Today's settlement enables farmers to do what they've done for generations — fix their own tractors and other farm equipment — without having to pay an authorized John Deere dealer to do it for them,' said FTC Bureau of Competition Director Daniel Guarnera. 'The settlement with Deere will help lower costs for American farmers. The FTC will continue fighting against anticompetitive restrictions on American consumers' right to repair.' as a way to strong-arm its own customers into mandatory dealership visits. This scheme creates a monopoly, which drives up prices. All to make a quick buck off farmers, the backbone of our nation. Some more details about the FTC's settlement with Deere: Related: John Deere 09/29/2025 China Pivots To Brazil, Squeezing U.S. Farmers As Trump Plans Relief Fund John Deere 08/10/2025 John Deere pledges to pour $20B into its US operations to ‘continue building and investing in America' John Deere 05/27/2025 It Begins...OpenAI software ignores explicit instruction to switch off |
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