The best headline about this story comes from The Guardian: “Greed’: John Deere rolls out hundreds of US layoffs and sends work to Mexico.”
Reuters takes the standard business excuse approach,: “Deere announces job cuts to tackle slowing farm equipment demand.”
And The Des Moines Register looks at jobs: More than 100 John Deere employees take early retirement as more layoffs loom
Overall, the news is tragic—tragic for Iowa’s Quad Cities community and tragic for the environment. We wonder what Iowa Governor Reynolds will do. Does she even care? The last sighting was her worrying more about whether she could get Trump’s nod for VP—nothing was said about John Deere, nothing about anything related to Iowans and jobs.