{"id":118986,"date":"2023-09-29T22:42:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T22:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=118986"},"modified":"2023-09-29T22:42:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T22:42:47","slug":"what-you-should-know-about-rights-to-repair-for-arkansas-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=118986","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What you should know about rights to repair for Arkansas farmers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thv11.com\/article\/news\/local\/farmers-rights-repair-arkansas\/91-2767316c-67fc-4122-900f-5f756aa86024\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thv11.com\/article\/news\/local\/farmers-rights-repair-arkansas\/91-2767316c-67fc-4122-900f-5f756aa86024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THV11<\/a>: &#8220;The right for\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thv11.com\/article\/life\/automotive\/farmers-repair-john-deere\/91-66d2c7cb-887b-4264-a60a-3f2464fa3759\" target=\"_blank\">farmers to repair<\/a>\u00a0their equipment has been an ongoing conversation with advocates who have been fighting for changes to try to make their lives a little easier&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lambert explained that they work to make sure Arkansas farmers have what they need including their rights to repair the equipment themselves that they use every day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s extremely vital to get pieces of equipment when they go down to get them back up and running,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January farmers were given the right to be able to repair their own John Deere equipment and from there, the list grew.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Kubota, &nbsp;AGCO, New Holland,&#8221; said Lambert.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The right to repair has been a huge help for farmers like Joe Thrash.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Before, we were stuck with having to go to John &nbsp;Deere for all the repairs and if all their technicians were busy you had to wait there might be a day, two days, or three days,&#8221; said Thrash.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The right to repair has allowed Thrash to save time and money on his farm in Mayflower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just part of our tool that we use every day. Our equipment&#8217;s got to be up and running all the time,&#8221; he said.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THV11: &#8220;The right for\u00a0farmers to repair\u00a0their equipment has been an ongoing conversation with advocates who have been fighting for changes to try to make their lives a little easier&#8230;. Lambert explained that they work to make sure Arkansas farmers have what they need including their rights to repair the equipment themselves that they use every&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118987,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118986\/revisions\/118987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}