{"id":1801751,"date":"2023-01-11T06:50:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T11:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1801751"},"modified":"2023-01-11T06:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T11:53:32","slug":"john-deere-vows-to-let-american-farmers-repair-their-own-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-deere-vows-to-let-american-farmers-repair-their-own-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"John Deere Vows to Let American Farmers Repair Their Own Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-deere-vows-to-let-american-farmers-repair-their-own-machines%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1801751&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-john-deere\">John Deere<\/a> &#038; Co., the world\u2019s largest manufacturer of agricultural equipment, may finally allow American farmers to repair the company\u2019s products on their own.<\/p>\n<p>John Deere is a pioneer in integrating advanced computer systems into farming machinery. He controls over half of the US tractor market. As John Deere <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-machines\">Machines<\/a> While technology has become increasingly sophisticated in recent years, American farmers complain about the fact that they need to travel farther to get their machines fixed.<\/p>\n<p>A memorandum o&#8217; understanding (MOU).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fb.org\/newsroom\/afbf-signs-right-to-repair-memorandum-of-understanding-with-john-deere\">Signed January 8, 2008<\/a> John Deere and American Farm Bureau Federation will hopefully lead to some change. In the private agreement, the Illinois-based farming equipment giant said it will commit to provide individual farmers and independent repair shops with the information they need to diagnose, maintain, and repair the company\u2019s smart tractors.<\/p>\n<p>John Deere specifically stated that equipment owners as well as independent mechanics will have access to electronic manuals, on-board diagnostics, product service demonstrations, software, and other publications related service, parts, operation and safety.<\/p>\n<p>They come in a variety of prices. These diagnostic tools are priced differently, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.deere.com\/jdb2cstorefront\/JohnDeereStore\/en\/search?text=%22Customer%20service%22&#038;productType=all\">the company\u2019s website<\/a>A 1-year license to a technical manual could cost as much as $3160<\/p>\n<p>With that said, John Deere also affirmed that it won\u2019t \u201cdivulge trade secrets, proprietary or confidential information\u201d Or allow anyone else to \u201coverride safety features or emissions controls or to adjust agricultural equipment power levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The AFBF is a Washington D.C.-based lobbying organisation that also agreed to encourage state agricultural bureaus. \u201crefrain from introducing, promoting, or supporting federal or state \u2018Right to Repair\u2019 legislation that imposes obligations beyond the commitments in this MOU.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an issue that has been a priority for us for several years and has taken a lot of work to get to this point,\u201d Vincent Duvall, president of AFBF, stated this in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd as you use equipment, we all know at some point in time there\u2019s going to be problems with it. And we did have problems with having the opportunity to repair our equipment where we wanted to, or even repair it on the farm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Montana <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-farmers\">Farmers<\/a> Union, one of the many groups that support this movement \u201cRight to Repair\u201d Movement in the United States raised objections to the fact this voluntary private agreement lacks enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they truly, honestly, wanted to give farmers and ranchers and independent repair shops the right to repair equipment, why are they so afraid of legislation that authorizes that?\u201d Walter Schweitzer, President of Montana Farmers Union was interviewed by NPR.<\/p>\n<p>Schweitzer, who owns a family farm in Geyser in central Montana, stated that he would need to repair a John Deere tractor problem in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy old tractor, I have service manuals that if it breaks down I can finger through those service manuals and I can troubleshoot and I can fix it, but with this tractor, I need the software,\u201d He told KULR-8 News. \u201cIf I don\u2019t have the software, there\u2019s nothing I can do. And that\u2019s wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-gq-pan\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WEB_GQ_PAN.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Pan\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Bill Pan is a reporter with The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Deere &#038; Co., the world\u2019s largest manufacturer of agricultural equipment, may finally allow American farmers to repair the company\u2019s products on their own. John Deere is a pioneer in integrating advanced computer systems into farming machinery. He controls over half of the US tractor market. 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