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The Conversation As tractors became more sophisticated over the past two decades, the big manufacturers allowed farmers fewer options for repairs. Rather than hiring independent repair shops, farmers have increasingly had to wait for company-authorized dealers to arrive. Getting repairs could take days, often leading to lost time and high costs. A new memorandum of […]

Companies can extract more profits if they can make consumers purchase the company’s replacement parts or use its exclusive dealership to repair the product.

For farmers, few examples of corporate constraints are more frustrating than repair restrictions and patent rights that prevent them performing maintenance on equipment they own outright.

This story was originally published by The Conversation. As tractors became more sophisticated over the past two decades, the big manufacturers allowed

Farmers are hopeful the laws will allow them to repair their tractors. New York passed the first broad right-to-repair law, in 2022, and nearly two dozen states have active legislation — about half of them targeting farm equipment.