A Paso Robles High School student was named the winner of the JB Dewar’s Tractor Restoration Education Program. Tyler Schimke spent 400 hours total rebuilding a 1945 Farmall tractor. He did most of ...

Some farmers are in a bruising battle with John Deere and other tractor makers over what they are allowed to repair on the equipment they own. American farmers have long had a clear favorite when it ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new tractor often costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, but one thing not included in that price is the right to repair it. That has put farmers on the front lines of a battle pitting consumers ...

The days of home tractor repair are coming to an end with machinery technology and tightening intellectual property restrictions meaning farmers are forced to pay big bucks to fix their machinery.

From his tractor dealership in Mountain Lake, Minnesota, Kyle Smith, owner of Midway Farm Equipment, dispatches his mechanics miles away to fix farmers' tractors — repairs requiring much more than a ...