'Right to repair' deal could save farmers time, money

Over the course of four generations of farming on his land, Bret Hays' family has seen plenty of technical advancements in agriculture over the years. But with those advantages has come complications. That technical equipment, like sensors, has been locked down. Hays said, for example, an error code might pop up on a computer but require a John Deere dealer to decode it. That won't be the case after John Deere came to an agreement with the American Farm Bureau Federation, he said. The deal gives farmers something they've been asking for for years: the "right to repair" their own equipment.