Attorney General Keith Ellison is suing iconic tractor manufacturer John Deere over farmers’ rights to repair their own machines.

A Maplewood man “engaged in a deceptive pattern” through his five nonprofits and one for-profit business — all of which have government-sounding names — as a means “to sow confusion for his own gain,” ...

Deere & Co. unfairly forces farmers to visit authorized dealers to repair their equipment, resulting in higher prices than if ...