UPDATE: An Illinois WARN notice, posted on Wednesday, showed John Deere was laying off 819 employees at its John Deere Harvester location in East Moline. However, by Thursday afternoon, the notice had been removed.
EARLIER: The posting showed the notification was received on Aug.13, 2025 and July 1, 2024.
But Dustin Lemmon, public relations manager for John Deere, released a statement to Farm Journal saying, “If there is a workforce reduction, we will first communicate directly with our employees.”
Earlier this year, Deere reported a significant drop in first-quarter profits. It also predicted a 30% decline in large agricultural equipment sales in the U.S. and Canada in 2025.
On Thursday, Deere released its third quarter earnings summary — reporting a net income of $1.289 billion, or $4.75 per share. That’s compared with a net income of $1.734 billion, or $6.29 per share, at the same time last year. The results topped Wall Street predictions.
For the first nine months of the year, net income attributable to Deere & Company was $3.962 billion, or $14.57 per share, compared with $5.855 billion, or $21.04 per share, for the same period last year.
Worldwide net sales and revenues dropped by 9%, to $12.01 billion, for the third quarter and decreased 18%, to $33.290 billion, for nine months.
