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In the time it takes for all this to play out, all the farmers could recoup their potential losses and then some by replacing their JD investment with Kubota, who supports independent repair shops.
Of course, with the debt load most farmers carry, that’s easier said than done.
If the federal government set up a replacement program though, and shipped all the JD machinery to Ukraine where hackers know how to modify the software, everyone but JD would win.
Kubota does not make equivalents to a lot of JD's lineup. Their biggest tractor (M8) really only has the traction weight and horsepower of JD's midsize tractors, which don't cut it for a majority of US farms needing large tilling implements.
That doesn't mean they can't replace JD at the smaller scale stuff though, and honestly they should.
Funny you should mention Ukraine, a decade ago (iirc) Ukraine hackers cracked the JD interface and started making available a tool for farmers to manage their own tractors - John Deere sued
https://www.vice.com/en/article/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware/
https://doctorow.medium.com/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors-bc93f471b9c8
Although I suspect you already knew that :-)