re: WOKE John Deere.....

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Imagine thinking placating trannys would lead to increased sales and “acceptance” lulz

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It seems that a lot of companies (like the one I work for) have gone to shite by trying to cut their way to a profit and are trying to keep their stock price up by sucking up to DEI investors.
Shitty decisions on top of shitty decisions.
When companies are controlled by dickheads only concerned with their bonuses and the stock price, stupid shite happens.
The facility I work at is a potential gold mine for them. 20 years ago we were breaking company records for production and quality, and we could again. Instead they've spent the last 15 years cutting and cutting and cutting. Lines down for weeks waiting on parts we used to keep in stock. Quality falling due to raggedy equipment that was old when I started in '86.
Now they're pouring money into expanding DEI programs.
It's sad and it pisses me off.
Shitbags, all of them.

Went kubota on my last 50 hp class tractor, looked at all the other brands for my new cabbed hundred horse, wound up going with Massey Ferguson 4710 4wd for many reasons, highly recommended.

Their construction equipment is trash, and I'll never darken their door after my last experience with buying a machine from them. I don't even take their tractors into consideration. They are not the JD of 22 years ago.

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Looks like CASE IH is about to pop off

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I wouldn’t be surprised if they are supporting the same shite. All the major corporations are doing for dumdass reason.

I usually minimize the negative impact of DEI type stuff when it comes to Nike, Starbucks...etc, etc....but John Deere?

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It's not that. In order to appear attractive to some major investors and fund managers, they have to have good ESG scores. That means they have to satisfy leftists through fealty to the climate change agenda, diversity, etc. Those with a fiduciary responsibility have manipulated their thinking into believing that good ESG scores correlate with stability. You can bet there are a few "studies" with manipulated results that suggest that, hence justifying their push.

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if this is true, why did Tractor Supply change their woke policies? It is a known fact that Tractor Supply changed their policies due to customer feedback.

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It's not that. In order to appear attractive to some major investors and fund managers, they have to have good ESG scores. That means they have to satisfy leftists through fealty to the climate change agenda, diversity, etc. Those with a fiduciary responsibility have manipulated their thinking into believing that good ESG scores correlate with stability. You can bet there are a few "studies" with manipulated results that suggest that, hence justifying their push.

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Solid post!

I wonder if they do what Tractor Supply did.

The new European law makes just about every corporation in the world bend the knee to this crap.

Just bought a little Kubota a couple of weeks ago. For all I know, they may be as bad or worse, but I think it will be a better tractor.

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if this is true, why did Tractor Supply change their woke policies?

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They still have a relatively good ESG score. .
Maybe the changes haven't registered at yahoo finance yet. But, they may have only changed window dressing leftist policies and the real more meaningful ones are intact.

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Looks like CASE IH is about to pop off

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Or the German company Fendt.
Since they are owned by AGCO they may be woke as well.

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Went kubota on my last 50 hp class tractor, looked at all the other brands for my new cabbed hundred horse, wound up going with Massey Ferguson 4710 4wd for many reasons, highly recommended.

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Massey makes a good product. If they could build up their dealer support here in the US they could contend with the big dogs. I have a 35hp that has been solid along with 3 Kubota tractors. For large Ag tractors i would look at CaseIH or Massey.