Page 1 - aruba-today-20230214

Aruba enjoyed a beautiful Aruba’s Tourism Association

Lighting Parade for Carnaval 69 Page 11 introducing AHATA Impact Award Page 7

Camping season 2023 announced

Tuesday
February 14, 2023
T: 582-7800
www.arubatoday.com
facebook.com/arubatoday
instagram.com/arubatoday
Page 8
A r u b a ’ s O N L Y E n g l i s h n e w s p a p e r
Aruba’s ONLY English newspaper

11 states consider ‘right to repair’ for farming equipment

By JESSE BEDAYN
Associated Press/Report
for America
DENVER (AP) — On Colo-
rado’s northeastern plains,
where the pencil-straight
horizon divides golden
fields and blue sky, a
farmer named Danny
Wood scrambles to plant
and harvest proso millet,
dryland corn and winter
wheat in short, seasonal
windows. That is until his
high-tech Steiger 370 trac-
tor conks out.
The tractor’s manufactur-
er doesn’t allow Wood to
make certain fixes himself,
and last spring his fertilizing
operations were stalled for
three days before the ser-
vicer arrived to add a few
lines of missing computer
code for $950.
“That’s where they have
us over the barrel, it’s more
like we are renting it than
buying it,” said Wood, who
spent $300,000 on the used
tractor.

Continued on Page 2 In this photo provided by Danny Wood is his tractor, sitting at his farm in northeastern Colorado in May 2022.
Associated Press