{"id":575326,"date":"2026-04-10T05:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/575326\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T05:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:36:15","slug":"john-deere-will-pay-farmers-99-million-over-right-to-repair-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/575326\/","title":{"rendered":"John Deere will pay farmers $99 million over right-to-repair lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">John Deere has agreed to pay farmers $99 million to resolve a class action lawsuit that accused the agricultural giant of preventing farmers and mechanics from accessing the materials needed to repair equipment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sustainability\/boards-policy-regulation\/deere-settles-us-right-to-repair-lawsuit-with-99-million-fund-repair-commitments-2026-04-07\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as reported earlier by Reuters<\/a>. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/28032153-john-deere-settlement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">part of the proposed settlement<\/a>, John Deere says it will make repair resources available for a period of 10 years, \u201con a license or subscription basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The company has also agreed to start allowing equipment owners and repair shops to reprogram or perform diagnostics on equipment while in offline mode by the end of 2026. These terms will allow equipment owners to \u201cavoid going to authorized Deere Dealers to make repairs,\u201d according to the settlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Deere has agreed to pay farmers $99 million to resolve a class action lawsuit that accused the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,9746,3,1343],"class_list":["post-575326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-law","tag-news","tag-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}