Queen Creek, Arizona — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes on Wednesday announced a settlement with Deere & Company, reached with the Federal Trade Commission and four other states, that will let farmers and independent shops obtain the diagnostic and repair tools they need on reasonable terms. Arizona joined the action resolving allegations that Deere illegally restricted equipment owners from fixing their own machines.
Queen Creek, a town in the southeastern Phoenix metropolitan area, sits amid some of Arizona's most productive agricultural land, where family farms and growers depend on working farm equipment and repair access to keep harvests on schedule.
"For too long, Arizona farmers and independent mechanics have been at the mercy of Deere's monopoly over repair tools, forced to wait — and pay — for authorized dealers just to fix broken tractors and other equipment," Attorney General Mayes said.
