D E E R E Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

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D E E R E Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangement of Certain Officers.

Alan C. Heuberger has been elected to the Deere & Company board of directors effective December 20, 2016. Mr. Heuberger is a senior investment manager at BMGI, the office responsible for all non-Microsoft investments for William H. Gates III as well as for the investments of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust.

Mr. Heuberger will be a member of the Audit Review Committee and the Finance Committee of the board of directors.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

99.1 News Release


About D E E R E  & C O M P A N Y (NYSE:DE)

Deere & Company is engaged in equipment operations and financial services. The Company operates through three business segments: agriculture and turf, construction and forestry, and financial services. The Company’s agriculture and turf segment primarily manufactures and distributes a full line of agriculture and turf equipment and related service parts. The Company’s construction and forestry segment primarily manufactures and distributes a range of machines and service parts used in construction, earthmoving, material handling and timber harvesting. The Company’s financial services segment primarily provides credit services, which include finance sales and leases by John Deere dealers of new and used agriculture and turf equipment and construction and forestry equipment.

D E E R E  & C O M P A N Y (NYSE:DE) Recent Trading Information

D E E R E  & C O M P A N Y (NYSE:DE) closed its last trading session up +1.37 at 103.64 with 2,093,125 shares trading hands.