Has John Deere Gone Woke?

23 Replies to “Has John Deere Gone Woke?”

1. Russian, Indian and Chinese manufacturing outfits don’t do this.
   John Deere is a vile, anti-consumer company.
   I hope they go under.

   1. I’m pretty sure that even the most conservative of farmers would much rather use a John Deere painted in rainbow colours than anything made in Russia, simply because John Deere actually works.

      1. We already knew you were gay, Jessica.

         1. Stop talking to the voices in your head.

            1. He was talking to the voices in YOUR head. Any way you can turn those down, by the way, the rest of us are finding it hard to concentrate.

      2. If Russia is no threat to us, I don’t understand why we are always picking fights with them then.

   2. Belarus – “The Worlds Least Woke Tractor Company”!

      1. Shopping for a Belarus tractor:
         https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ShCRPov5Kjk

2. Headline should be “John Deere, Gone Queere.”

   I drive a Japanese pickup that was assembled in Mexico. I have no workmanship complaints after 13 years. Sure beats the last GM I had from Canada. Most of the Mexican’ts are already in the US.

3. Guess I’ll be buying a Mahindra next.

4. gotta feel a wee bit bad for the 1000s whose jobs will utterly vanish and the granny stockholders gonna lose 85% stock value.
   but then, if demand for farm eqpt is on average steady, the increase production and sales of EVERY competitor will create job opportunities for th ex-deere.

   well, unless those jobs emigrate too. so then they have to figure out what millions of workers did about that for the last 40 years.

   boo hoo hoo and ha ha ha

5. The fact they made about 10 billion last year, gave top execs millions, and are now moving their production to mexico. Buy a deere now and you are putting money in mexican folks pockets, plus the greedy management. phuc john deere.

   1. Eventually, when you no longer build the things you need you are owned by someone else.

   2. Guess they’re moving to Mexico because Mexico is so well known for it’s Feminist woke culture/ heh.

6. Farmers are politically conservative. If the conservative media can play this up, John Deere could be vulnerable.

   1. Oh yeah? A lot of them around here are still drinking bud light.

7. The bucks stop here.

8. Someone shot photoshop Dylan Mulvaney swigging a Bud Light while riding a rainbow-themed John Deere tractor.

9. John Deere is at the forefront of “not fixable by customers”, and suing anyone tries that isn’t a licensed dealer.

   That is a bigger problem that them embracing Discrimination, Exclusion and Inequality.

10. All the DEI aside, we researched utility tractors a couple years ago. The Green paint was the most expensive with only the basics. We opted for the Korean Kioti. From dirt to showroom, Kioti is all Kioti, no parts from others, everything manufactured by them. Best warranty that we found. Great tractor.

    1. Interesting. I have ALWAYS been a John Deere man. Worked at a couple of John Deere dealerships and pretty well all our equipment on the farm was GREEN.
       BUT.
       I am now looking at getting a new subcompact tractor and it’s the Kioti.
       That is all I am going to say.

       1. My John Deere lawnmower (pre-woke model) has been running like a top for 24 years, meanwhile all my long time neighbours are on their 2nd – 3rd mowers.

          It will be sad to not be able to replace it some day in the future. I suppose there’s options like sheep, mechanical rotor blade push mowers, scythes, or simply tons of gravel and be done with it.

11. I just bought a 2025 JD for my property, I don’t try to earn a living with it, and it is a fine tractor for a homeowner who needs to do minor stuff like scraping the gravel driveway, brush hogging, moving small amounts of dirt around, but I wish I had looked a little harder at the alternatives, because as I am doing jobs with it, I start seeing stuff that it doesn’t have that the competitors do have, like a hydraulic line for a grapple, half my trees were killed by that Chinese ash borer and I will have cleanup to do for a couple of years, but to be fair, it has a lot of stuff my old Massey subcompact didn’t have, or it did but were just toys. But JD is as pricey as they get, it shouldn’t be missing features, that just creates opportunities for new competitors.

    I guess what I am saying is that cash cows have a way of going dry, and JD should be looking over its shoulder, maybe, instead of wasting time on social engineering. And before you buy, if you are not a professional in the business, like I wasn’t, YouTube is your friend, which I learned too late. There are a lot of manufacturers out there competing for your business.