Volume wise most of Deere’s products are made outside the US. The high dollar large tractors and Combines and large engines are made here. But most of the high volume small/midsize tractors are produced outside the US. For engines, Mexico and France both produce more than are made in the US.
John Deere strike imminent?
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Volume wise most of Deere’s products are made outside the US. The high dollar large tractors and Combines and large engines are made here. But most of the high volume small/midsize tractors are produced outside the US. For engines, Mexico and France both produce more than are made in the US.
Deere has many manufacturing facilities around the world but mostly to manufacture product that meets various customer demand and match what the different countries needs are. Most of the products manufactured in Iowa or Illinois are sold here in the US. Some machines are for export but overwhelmingly sold here.
Machines made overseas are built to comply with different countries size restrictions, tier levels etc.
yep., been to the zweibrucken harvester plant in Germany. EU combines/SPFHs are top of the line super safety regulated... harvesters going to russia...... LOL
From what I can tell it’s the equivalent of another 5% raise. No idea if it’ll pass though. There’s a pretty vocal group holding out to get their health care funded into retirement like the old guys have.
Why? That’s been the case the last few
Do they understand it’s equally likely that Deere will move production to the moon? And that it might cost less?
I don't think they do. Maybe JD just needs to give a proposal with healthcare through retirement but with an offsetting drop in wages to pay for it. Just to see how much they really want that.
Based on comments about the first TA and how healthcare wasn't changed, I don't think they understand that 'no change' was actually a huge increase in benefits as the cost of that insurance has increased significantly.
Where are you getting this idea that CEO pay impacts lower management salaries? I worked for three companies. CEOs came and went, which came with wild swings in CEO pay. It had zero impact on mid- and lower management pay.
Case in Burlington and Racine are UAW. Case in Fargo, Wichita, and Grand Island are non union IIRC.
Are John Deere tractors far superior to either Case or New Holland? I don't really know much about the equipment and I've always wondered. I once had a farmer tell that when you buy Deere, your just paying for the color of the paint. I should have asked him why he felt that way but didn't.
Maybe the old 4010's(damn fine machine) and stuff from the 60s. New tractors are new tractors to me. Just buying a name these days.
Red and green are comparable. The blue is more in line with buhler, Duetz, massey level stuff. Just more basic machines IMO.
I think it passes, lot of the union guys who aren’t hard no’s seem ready to get back to work. Some of these guys were voting no before even seeing the previous offer. They are staggering voting in Waterloo too, alphabetically. Last time there were people speaking out to the crowd before the vote, rallying them to vote no. Not having the assembly before hand probably swings more yes votes.
Deere and Case have the best dealer networks so parts and service are the best there, which drives a lot of their sales. We have a good local AgCo and New Holland dealer so we aren’t afraid of any color but in some places of the state dealer support for the “off-brands” is hit and miss.
I think pretty much any tractor made in the last 10-15 years is solid.
When I was in the bank I could go through records and find any purchase or will document (which declared the value at that time) price of any ground I wanted to. That was old school cards and big books in the recorders office back then. Much easier now with the internet, can zip up the price within minutes.
