I did not hear that John Deere is starting to move production out of USA. FOR some model tractors

[grsthegreat]

John Deere announces mass layoffs in Midwest amid production shift to Mexico

John Deere has announced another wave of layoffs Friday, telling around 610 production staff at plants in Illinois and Iowa that they will be out of a job by the end of the summer.

news.yahoo.com

 

[JCoastie]

bought a big JD around 2005/2006 for work, I forget the model, but we pulled a 12-15" batwing with it. Even back then, it was made in Mexico, or at least a crapton of the parts were.

whatever model this is, I was very surprised Mexico was all over that thing.

 

[grsthegreat]

My smaller JD870 was actually a yanmar according to all the yanmar labels on it. It was just painted green. Have no idea where it was made.

 

[jyoutz]

My smaller JD870 was actually a yanmar according to all the yanmar labels on it. It was just painted green. Have no idea where it was made.

Japan. I had one of those also. Good machines.

 

[grsthegreat]

It worked great, i was just very surprised. When i purchased it i just thought it would have been built in USA. I was pretty naive i guess.

 

[BnRidge]

 

[5030]

They have a huge plant in Mannheim, Germany and I used to haul the smaller JD's out of Horicon, Wisconsin.

 

[rScotty]

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I wonder what that graph would look like it showed number of employees in the US ?

 

[RandyT]

It worked great, i was just very surprised. When i purchased it i just thought it would have been built in USA. I was pretty naive i guess.

With a little research is sounds like several of the JD compacts are still built by Yanmar but are assembled by JD in Georgia.. At one time the JD were Yanmar, Ford New Holland was Shubaura and later LS and the Case IH were Mitsubishi. Read at one time that all tractors under 100 hp were made overseas across all US brands.

 

[Ricn]

All these jobs lost to overseas workers, to bad.