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Deere announces layoffs

4/6/2009

Deere & Co., manufacturer of John Deere lawn maintenance products, has announced that 40 employees of the John Deere Ottumwa Works, in Ottumwa, Iowa, will be indefinitely laid off, effective April 20. The layoff affects workers with the least seniority.

The layoffs are in response to reduced market conditions for the factory's products.

The John Deere Ottumwa Works manufactures balers, mower conditioners, windrowers and pull-type forage harvesters used by hay and livestock producers.

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