Ursa Ag Offers Repairable, No-Tech Tractor as Alternative to John Deere's Locked-Down Equipment
Pale and squishy. Not ruined, just not done.
Summary
Ursa Ag, an Alberta-based company, is selling a repairable, no-tech tractor that challenges the trend of agricultural equipment being locked down with proprietary technology. The article discusses how this contrasts with John Deere's practices of making tractors difficult to repair through tech-laden designs, lobbying against right-to-repair legislation, and restricting access to parts and diagnostic tools. The piece is framed as a podcast episode from The 404 Media Podcast covering the right-to-repair movement in agriculture.
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One of the things I've written about most is the frustration that farmers feel with agriculture giant John Deere, which has made their tractors very difficult to repair by loading it up with tech, lobbying against right to repair legislation, and making parts and diagnostic tools and repair guides hard to access.
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