Zimmey’s Tractor Repair LLC is a trusted tractor and farm equipment repair shop located in Myerstown, Pennsylvania along Route 501 north of Schaefferstown. Specializing in John Deere agricultural and ...

The iconic image of the American farmer is the man or woman who works the land, milks cows and is self-reliant enough to fix the tractor. But like a lot of mechanical items, tractors are increasingly ...

For the mechanically minded operator, it’s often possible to carry out minor repairs in the farm workshop. But with tractors getting ever more complex, there’s an increasing number of jobs that ...

During the 2023 harvest season, one of Jake Lieb’s tractors quit working. A week later, his combine stopped working, too. Both were new — and he was locked out from making any repairs himself because ...

I squatted down in the dirt and took stock of my inadequate tools. Over my left shoulder a massive John Deere tractor loomed. I came here to fix that tractor. So far, things weren’t going as planned.

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 ...

Rather than rely on and wait for authorized company representatives to make expensive phone calls, some tractor owners are callling local “technicians” who are allegedly using hacked firmware that was ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than a few years now, we’ve been covering the saga of tractors from the larger manufacturers on which all components are locked down by software to the extent that they can only be replaced ...

The software in Peter Ripka’s $120,000 tractor gave him an error code and cut the engine to 50% capacity, and Ripka couldn’t figure out why. He was locked out ...