farmers around the world have turned to tractor hacking so they can bypass the digital locks that manufacturers impose on their vehicles. Like insulin pump “looping” and iPhone jailbreaking, this ...

Cover tractor of the month, Fastline Nebraska edition. Owned by Duane and Karmon Lienemann, Hoskins, Neb. Restored by Wayne and Dallas Hansen and Mark Strate. The owners purchased this classic tractor ...

Tractor and John Deere can almost be used interchangeably at this point, due to how iconic the brand has become. In fact, John Deere has continued to shape the tractor industry and refine the popular ...

To avoid the draconian locks that John Deere puts on the tractors they buy, farmers throughout America’s heartland have started hacking their equipment with firmware that’s cracked in Eastern Europe ...

There is something wrong with the tractor. The water-in-fuel sensor, a small device embedded in the John Deere machine that monitors the integrity of its diesel engine, is disconnected. And I’ve got ...

The story of John Deere is a special one, arguably just as much as that of American agriculture itself. You cannot think of heavy farm and industrial machinery without that familiar leaping deer logo ...