In my June 24 blog on the Right to Repair class action lawsuit, “Where’s the Class in Class-Action?,” there was “another blog topic for another day …” A recent phone call with an executive from a multi-store John Deere dealer group confirmed the chatter. That is, that John Deere called mandatory regional leadership meetings the same week as Farm Equipment’s 12th Annual Dealership Minds Summit (DMS) in Springfield, Ill., on August 4-5, 2026.