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Their efforts include pledging the company [John Deere] “will no longer participate in or support external social or cultural awareness parades, festivals or events,” will be “auditing all company-mandated training materials and policies to ensure the absence of socially motivated messages” and “reaffirming within the business that the existence of diversity quotas and pronoun identification have never been and are not company policy.” More
Nothing runs like a Deere.
Are they afraid they’ll lose a buck?
John Deere might as well be a Chinese corp. I own a fairly new Deere riding lawn mower. Every single cast part on it says “Made In China”. Which explains a lot. It’s not running right now.
Having spent many years repairing John Deere lawn tractors I can say they have been making mind numbing, head scratching decisions in their engineering and design divisions for a long time.
Want to change your drive belt.
Get ready to disassemble things you won’t have to do on any other make.
And also the cheapest plastic bodywork and seat vinyl you’ll ever encounter.
And everything is metric and oddball sizes.
Valvestems on the backside of the wheels. Have fun rolling a garden tractor with a flat tire so you can access the valve stem.
I despise them.
My grandfather owned nothing else but those were different times.
Different Tim
You wouldn’t happen to live in NorCal would you? I could use your help. I’ll pay you all the IOTW bucks I have. LOL
I don’t believe for a moment that these companies are walking away from DEI.
I believe it is too entrenched within companies and they are moving to rebrand this crap.
They market themselves as true-blue USA, but are almost entirely foreign. The real irony is Kubota, which everyone thinks is Japanese, are mostly made here.
Sorry Brad, was there in late 70’s, Concord CA, saw the sights, shook my head a lot and hightailed back to Michigan. (Missed Lake Huron/the ocean left me unimpressed).
Great place to visit (back then) but I didn’t want to live there.
Thank goodness I documented my California trip on Polaroid film.
They slowly faded away to nothing decades ago. I spent a small fortune for nothing.
They have the Deere in the headlights look. I will take a Kubota any day.
Different Tim
Well if you ever make it back out here again, hit me up. I’ll take you Bass Fishing on the California Delta.
I have 160 acers of farm land and we dumped the Green stuff for the Red stuff. John Deere has proprietary test gear and non-standard [SAE] hardware that prevents you from working on your own equipment. This DEI BULL SHIT is no more than the perverts running the company into the ground. Don’t ever think they are dumping DEI. They shit canned hundreds of hard working Americans in Iowa and Illinois employees and are now moving their shit equipment to Mexico. Those dumb fucks just shit canned themselves and they don’t even know it. Don’t ever buy John Deere
John Deere have sucked for a long time. We had a local John Deere dealer here, who about 8 years ago quit being an exclusive dealer for them. He said it was because the quality was no longer there.
They lost a lot of exclusive dealers, that’s why they started selling at Lowes and other big box stores.
My son and his wife have a horse farm on 23 acres(see Big Fur Hat’s wonderful painting of the farm!) and I am happy to say that bought a small Kubota for running around at feeding time to haul grain buckets and hay and spreading manure in the fields. For all of the big jobs, my son found two very old, huge tractors from the 50s and 60s! He can still get parts for thdm and do his own maintenance. One is a Massey-Harris and I don’t recall the other. They are amazing machines.
@Old Racist White Woman WEDNESDAY, 17 JULY 2024, 22:14
Exactly
Oh, yeah…Farmall is the other tractor. Do they even make those anymore?
I can’t contain myself…
If Deere is dumping DEI it is not because they tried to suck up to the perverts, it’s because the perverts don’t purchase their products.
@ Conservative Cowgirl
we (America) have lost ~90% of our manufacturing capability
but we have clean air and clean water
for the Chinese (and Bill Gates) when they come to take us over
It’s hard to find anything that lasts anymore. At my grandfathers old camp we still have a working Frigidaire (by GM) refrigerator that was made in the late 1940s. Grandpa bought it used in the early 60s. Yeah, it only gets seasonal use, but still. A few years ago I had to put a new power cord on it, that’s when I found out when it was manufactured. It could use new seals on the door, but I’m gonna wait for my moneybags cousin to buy a new fridge and watch it crap out in 3 or 4 years.
Yikes, note to self, IOTWReports womenz love their tractors. LOL
Two words, Massey Ferguson
Think of all the business they’re going to lose. Like queer farmers, trans-ranchers, and pervert golf course groundskeepers.
Think it over, John Deere.
Well, to reinforce the comments on customer base above. Whether flora or fauna, if you haven’t figured out that there are just two non-interchangeable sexes, then you won’t get far in agriculture.
Lot of Farmalls and Johnny Poppers and Ford N tractors still in use. A lot of outfits appear to me to have gone to Massey Ferguson or New Holland lately. Don’t see much new Deere equipment these days
Massey Ferguson, manufacturer of state of the art farming equipment. Early ona merge between a U.K concern and a Canadian entity. They settled in Canada. Until Justin Turdo chased them out. Could be wrong, but I believe they are now headquartered in south America somewhere. They’re making a mint. This comment isn’t really about them. It’s about how fucking stupid John Deere management is. They could have owned that industry.
Hoyt-Clagwell Tractor, if it’s good enough for Oliver it’s good enough for me.
It’s a step in the right direction if the hundreds of recently slashed jobs were all DEI hires. Now get back to making machinery.
All queer Deere models, toys, T shirts, hats, whatever, have been cleared out. John Deere Gators are the worst machines I ever wasted money on.
the dc-10 cargo door designer-mode lives on. needlessly complex, parts that get constant wear made of plastic, etc.
Case. International Harvester. Minneapolis-Moline. Allis-Chalmers. Oliver. Ford. Massey Ferguson. Steiger.
Plenty to choose from, especially vintage stuff.
Deere is moving tractor cab production to Mexico. What’s DEI in Mexico?
A John Deere letter –
I’m sure you’ll be the last to hear
that, since the farmer has departed
your damn old tractor can’t get started!
Sincerely
Broken down .. and broken hearted
@Brad
M-F now does most of its tractor manufacturing in a city in France called Beauvais, something like that. I looked it up out of curiosity. Its products seem to be quite popular in Yurp.
At least it’s not done in China…but who knows about the parts?
Tim Buktu
France. Wow, I would not have guessed that.