Deere & Co agrees to pay $99 million to settle ‘right to repair’ lawsuit

But what about the stock price?!

It's almost like this whole concept of fining companies as 'punishment' doesn't work and has never worked because they just pass it along to customers. Same for things like suing government and expecting any change. None of the people making the decisions that cause the problems feel anything from it, there's absolutely no deterrent.

> I’m sure they will raise prices Given how high their prices already are, will anyone notice?

Less actually. After tax treatment, the settlement is only $75M in net liability. 

A few executives may get a smaller bonus. Or its just the legal team.

You're off by two decimal places.

Given they're going your community with recently laid off folks, I'd say it's more accurate to call them an "*unemployment* source".

They got 99 problems, but a fine ain’t one.

There is a non zero chance of this happening and honestly might work if they go for it. What a wild time line

Trump has absolutely gutted farmers for 10 years and they vote for him regardless.

Bit too late for that. Tariffs plus the retaliation cost the, already. Scaring off immigrant labor and offering serfdom bandaids doesn’t help. And now a way of choice that is driving up energy costs and weakening the US further doesn’t help. I guess farmers do get the satisfaction knowing a trans person won’t be using their bathroom.

What are you talking about? He screws them over and then has Congress cut them a gigantic check to bribe them back into his camp. They're doing just fine under this administration even if he screws them with right to repair.

I completely agree.

He has ratfucked them already, their fertilizer costs/availability gonna be shitassed for years

with the current war in Iran he already is

Seems they mostly have Mahindra now

I worked for a shortline ag manufacturer for almost 20 years, hated working with John Deere, they were the first dealers to crack $100+/hour for labor rates (a long time ago), they were always 25%-50% higher than other dealers and made warranties a giant pain as they would also constantly add drive time and unreasonable hours.

Obviously I detest their business practices, but even the alfalfa bailers, cotton picking equipment, soybean handling machines that Deere makes don't often have a direct competitor. For small farms, the Deere bailer can be run by 1 man with a small tractor. The Mahindra we switched to always needs a volunteer helper. I do hate the company, thoguh.

I make a guess, electronics?

I live in this community and will tell you many of us grasp for any sort of help. Between costs going up for fertilizer and feed and the inability to sell things overseas anymore there isn’t much any of us can do. Hating on farmers because a group votes a certain way ignorant and ignores their desperation. So yeah they believe assholes that say they want to help and sadly they know it’s never coming. Also for the record I live in central Texas And very few of my neighbors or people in my co-op voted Trump the second time. They feel for his shit once not twice. Though I doubt many voted for Harris I think they just stayed home.