Support for right-to-repair laws slowly grows
For those who are having trouble finding reasons why farmers care about right to repair, its not just the tractors themselves but the PTO accessories in most cases.<p>For example, many PTO links on newer John Deer or Ferguson tractors contain a set of over torque sensors designed to shut off ot disconnect to prevent stallout and engine damage.  if you repaired a spreader or a mower assembly from a John Deere, it needs to have all the original sensors on it to operate from the cab, and those sensors need to all return normal "john deere" values/codes for the implement. if not, you need to pay John Deere for another farm implement.<p>Farmers want the right to upgrade the firmware in-cab or make exceptions to allow repaired equipment.