On January 14, 2026, Deere & Company filed a definitive proxy statement soliciting proxies and urged the shareholders to vote against a shareholder proposal, requesting the Board of Directors of John Deere conduct an evaluation and issue a report within the next year, at reasonable cost and excluding proprietary and confidential information, evaluating the reputational, human capital, operational, legal, and other relevant risks of failing to allow faith-based business resource groups (BRGs), submitted by Bowyer Research, Inc., on behalf of Kenneth W Nimmons Rev Trust & Juliette I Nimmons Rev Trust, at the Company?s annual shareholders meeting scheduled to be held on February 25, 2026.
Deere & Company specializes in the manufacturing and marketing of agricultural and forestry materials and equipment. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- agricultural and green space maintenance equipment (58.9%): tractors, harvesters, sprayers, motors, cutters and grinders, scrapers, irrigation equipment, handling equipment, brush-hogs, power mowers, etc.;
- construction and forestry equipment (24.4%): loaders, graders, tractors, excavators, cutter-chippers, forwarders, etc.;
- other (2.9%).
The remaining sales (13.8%) are from sales financing services (purchasing, leasing, etc.).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (52.5%), Western Europe (14.3%), Latin America (12.3%), Asia/Africa/Oceania/Middle East (9.3%), Canada (8.2%) and other (3.4%).
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