John Deere SCREWED Farmers, Now They're Paying The Price!

John Deere has been screwing farmers for years, and now those farmers are finally fighting back! Will farmers win the fight against the giant tractor company? In this video I'm going to show you what's been happening over the past few years between John Deere and the farmers, and also give you an update to whats happening with this in 2024.

[tomriley]

Ironic that a company founded by a repairman now forbids people to repair things.

[wayneott]

I farm and since John Deere has made it impossible to work on their equipment I refuse to buy any of their products.

[steveng-jzmo]

John Deere's major investors are Vanguard, Cascade and BlackRock. And you wonder why John Deere is turning to crap. No strings being pulled there.

[johnwest]

I have a farmer friend who bought an old Deere from the '50's or so to fix up to pull a hay-wagon for hayrides and in the town parades. He already had a big newer Deere with computerized everything and air-conditioning. But he pulled his old Deere out of the barn to use as a back-up when he had troubles with the new one. Three years later he just uses the old one. During planting and harvest seasons he runs the old Deere 3 shifts, taking turns on the tractor with 2 of his sons, and the big new beast he's still paying on just sits there in the shed gathering dust. He's not a happy farmer. Guess what he tells other farmers who want advice on a new tractor.

[jandd]

I would like to see a label that says, "No John Deere equipment was used in the making of this product."

[davidcox]

Farmers vs. John Deere. I'll be supporting the farmers. No farmers, no food.

[jessiej]

The best answer to all farmers problems is " STOP BUYING anything labeled John Deere "

[TrevorJohnson-pu]

Hello all. Regarding John Deere and its move to Mexico. I have some personal history with John Deere. I live in Canada where John Deere used to have a factory in Welland Ontario. That factory opened in 1911. Every single year of its operation saw the highest tonnage output per man hour worked and the highest profit margins of any John Deere facility in the world. In the 80’s they built the AMT there. Then they shifted to the gator. Every gator made was made in Welland. Every contract, John Deere threatened to pull the gator line and move it to South Carolina if we didn’t take a pay cut. Late 90’s or early 2000’s after I quote for the writing on the wall, they did pull the gator line and attempt to move it. They ended up losing almost 2 years of production and eventually moved the line back to welland. Im no mathematician but I figure they could have paid $100 per hour for labour and still saved money. Not sure if anyone puts 2 and 2 together but John Deere has been outsourcing parts for decades so the made in America is actually nothing more than a mantra. They are the pioneers of offshore outsourcing. Welland works was closed and abandoned and left for the tax base of welland to pay for demolition and clean up. That plant was all based on piece work pay for the shop floor. One day I went for a walk and got all the times for every part on a 540 loader which was the he machine I welded. Every bushing, stamped part, weld, assembly, paint, and even the stickers cost John Deere $165 in direct labour. Nobody on this earth can convince me that John Deere can ship a loader so far as across the street for $165. The cost for employees to a company that has had pensions for 3 generations is not the labour cost, I would argue it is more likely the pension administration fees and health insurance fees. That is not to say employees should not have pensions and health insurance. Im saying pension fund managers, insurance companies and company uppers make too much. John Deere is certainly not alone in that. It is for the most part not the fault of the fella begging on the corner that he is begging on the corner. When there are no jobs there are no options. Here in peterborough ontario, Quaker Oats actually pays less per hour than they did 25 or 30 years ago. No adjustment for inflation. Just the actual number per hour is a smaller number than it was. GM used to build their own bumpers in Oshawa. I assume about $40 or $50 would have had one ready to install all in the same building. They started outsourcing so that bumper was loaded onto no less than 4 different trucks and run through 3 separate facilities all the while collecting road salt that hinders the chrome electroplating process. They demolished their warehouse so they don’t pay tax on it and sold heavy trucks to sit on the highway and bung up traffic for the rest of society while they make a profit on heavy truck sales and show a loss on light truck manufacturing and went to our government for a welfare check of close to a billion dollars of tax base support while kids in school have no books or sports gear. I know I am speaking of the Canadian experience but it is the same experience as America. Gotta wonder if the community would be better off keeping folks employed on farms. What is it we are chasing anyway? What is it we really want out of life? This particular post is regarding John Deere but something as simple as a pair of jeans should also be considered. Why don’t we make them in our own communities just like we are looking to fix our tractors in our own community? A town of 50000 people would theoretically need about 50000 pair of jeans a year. That sounds like a lot of folks kept off the street corners.

[essexfarmer]

As a large arable UK farmer who first had many JD tractors back in the early 1970s, we used to be happy until about 10 years ago, then we found that the usual JD product reliability and repair costs with 7, 000 series tractors was unusually poor. The same happened then started with the 6, 000 series tractors. We came to realise JD was no longer as reliable to justify a premium price tag. They either took less care in design or designed down to a build price, or both! To add insult to injury, we found that when we came to trade in for new that the poor reliability had hit second hand demand and values. JD would not give a back up guarantee for their biggest 9620T if it broke down. We said back your product or we walk, but JD didn't care or budge. We looked at Fendt and found them similar price but that a 240hp Fendt used £10, 000 less fuel than a JD over 5 years, and that was when diesel was 60% of todays prices, held its resale value and was more reliable. We changed the whole JD fleet to Fendt and have never looked back! This is how easy it is for a few greedy top executives to ruin a top products reputation in a few short years of taking their customers for granted.

[valleyviewacres]

I run a cattle ranch. Honestly I was done with JD 20 years ago when I started to realize that if they couldn't sell you the top of the line computer on four wheels they didn't want your business.all of this "right to repair" stuff only reassures me that I was right.

[PS-Straya_M]

There's a reason why 40 year old farm equipment is in such demand right now!

[AChandle]

Louis Rossmann has been working to bring this issue to light for literal years.
And every time they make a stride forward, Deere pushed them 2, sometimes 3 steps back.
Here's the IMPORTANT thing people need to realize:
If Deere keeps getting away with this, they won't be able to go to other equipment makers, because those makers will do the SAME F'ing THING as Deere is.

[LegendStormcrow]

The Right to Repair movement isn't just against John Deere. It's also against Apple

[MassStash]

Thanks to the farmers, and thanks to Louis Rossman for making right to repair electronics publicized!

[eekamoose]

Here’s how it works. Greedy top executives shaft their customers and their employees to achieve short-term gains in profit. They then get massive bonuses. By the time the company implodes, said greedy top executives have moved on to another company to repeat the operation.

I’ve seen it done and been one of the employees who lost their jobs in the process. It’s heart-breaking and sickening. Destroying a company’s reputation and a competent workforce like this to make a quick buck is asset-stripping, which in some contexts is a crime.

[-FRYXELL-]

God bless Louis Rossmann. He's been fighting for farmers like no other. His efforts are absolutely next level.

[gregdawson]

John Deere is not equipment ownership, its a subscription.

[scottmccloud]

My dad got screwed by john deere. It was a riding lawn mower but my dad was tired of wasting his hard earned money on Walmart brands every two years. So he wanted a good name brand, he could trust. He knew deere was good because he grew up seeing it. Dad was getting on in years and didn't want to have to deal with repairs. One of john deeres snake oil salesmen talked dad into their el cheapo mower. He had less than 24 hours on the machine when it kept slipping out of gear. I checked it out and found out the the rear end gears were plastic. Yes plastic. The rear end gears. I couldn't believe it. I bought a replacement rearend from deere and should of checked with Fisher Price instead. The deere replacement was junk too.
Dad was so infuriated he quit mowing the grass. He hired the neighbor kid to mow his grass.
When I bought the replacement part from deere, the salesman told me before I left to be sure to come back. I told him, my dad wouldn't have another piece of sh&t john deere ever again. A guy in the back looked at me like he wanted to fight. Musta been the manager.
Dad couldn't believe he wasted his hard earned money on something he "knew" was good.
I know no one in my family will ever buy from deere. I wish the farmers godspeed.

[michaelryan]

This all is so true. I had my Lawn tractor in for a carburetor problem. When I got it back they had changed a drive belt (at a labor cost of $35). They sad it was bad and needed changing. I wasn't having any problems with it, but I figured it was done so no use in making a issue of it. I got it home and started it up and the belt shot out torn in pieces. The said I must have done something wrong and I should bring it back in and they would put a new one in. I took it back and they replaced it but gave me a bill for $85.96 for doing it. I told them I wasn't paying it and they said I would be hearing from their lawyer. I did hear from their lawyer. I ended up giving in rather than fighting it in court for $85.96. I'm done with John Deere.

[MrKornnugget]

It seems like every company hates their customers. Look at Disney and Harley Davidson.