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Based in Moline, Ill., this maker of tractors, combines, and other agricultural gear endured a tough 2024, as weather disruptions and trade tensions fueled a global downturn in farming. The slump in U.S. homebuilding, meanwhile, hurt its construction equipment division. Overall, Deere’s revenue dropped 16% year over year, to $51.7&nbsp;billion.

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John Deere—the machinery and equipment company famous for its iconic green tractor—had one of its most profitable years ever in 2022, reaching $7 billion, up 20% from the previous year, as it took a page from the tech industry’s playbook, developing self-driving tractors, satellite-linked smart equipment, and a software-as-a-service business. 
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 	<li>Revenues in 2022 grew 19% as the company was able to pass much of the increase in production costs on to farmers who were flush with cash after corn and soybean prices hit record highs.</li> 
 	<li>In May 2023 Deere announced a plan to connect remote farms in Brazil and the U.S. to state-of-the-art machinery via satellite.</li> 
 	<li>The tractor maker suffered a legislative setback in Colorado in April 2023 when Gov. Jared Polis signed a “right to repair” bill, enabling farmers to fix their own equipment, thus ending Deere’s monopoly on repairs of its machinery.</li> 
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Aggregate sales hit $37.8 trillion last year—an increase of 19%, the highest annual growth rate in the list’s history.

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A staple of American manufacturing for nearly 200 years, Illinois-based Deere makes agricultural and construction machinery as well as diesel engines and lawn care equipment. In 2021, the company posted 24% year-over-year revenue growth. Profits jumped, too, with demand for its machinery snapping back as the global economy rebounded. Deere also smoothed its labor outlook for the near future by reaching a six-year labor agreement with the United Auto Workers union in November 2021, ending a five-week strike. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Deere suspended shipments of machinery to Russia and Belarus.

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Total revenue for the world’s biggest companies fell 4.8% to $31.7 trillion this year—the first decline in half a decade.

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This year's Fortune Global 500 generated $33.3 trillion in revenues and $2.1 trillion in profits.

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John May is not even a full year into his tenure as only the 10th chief executive ever to lead the 183-year-old American icon. He finds himself at the helm of the $39.2 billion agricultural giant as it rolls with virus-related punches; Deere briefly suspended production of construction and forestry equipment at some facilities amid weakened demand and pivoted to manufacturing 400,000 face shields for health care workers. For 2019, the company's revenue rose 5.1% year-over-year and profits spiked by 37%, to $3.3 billion. But even before the pandemic, Deere said it expected sales to fall at least 10% in 2020.

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John May is seven months into his tenure as only the 10th chief executive ever to lead the 183-year-old American icon. He finds himself at the helm of the $39.2 billion agricultural giant as it rolls with virus-related punches; Deere briefly suspended production of construction and forestry equipment at some facilities amid weakened demand, and is now manufacturing 400,000 face shields for health care workers. The company's revenue rose 5.1% year-over-year and profits spiked by 37%, to $3.3 billion in 2019. But even before the pandemic, Deere said it expected sales to fall at least 10% in 2020.

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Global business is back. After limping through a worldwide financial crisis and economic slowdown, the 500 largest companies ranked by revenues shattered all sorts of performance records in 2013: They racked up combined revenues of $31.1 trillion, up 2.5% from 2012, and profits soared 27% to nearly $2 trillion. China’s 95 companies (up from 89 last year) posted $5.8 trillion in revenues. The U.S. has four fewer companies on the list than last year but remains (for now) the country leader, with 128 corporations on the list—including No. 1 Wal-Mart Stores—reporting $8.6 trillion in revenues. 

Wal-Mart stayed on top as its sales crept closer to half-a-trillion dollars. Apple moved into the top five. And UnitedHealth Group continued its steady climb. 

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Deere (commonly known as John Deere) is an agricultural giant that manufactures and sells tractors, harvesters, loaders, and other equipment used by farmers worldwide. Founded in 1837 as a maker of steel plows pulled by horses, the company has expanded into heavy machinery used for golf course maintenance, snow removal, and logging. The company introduced a self-driving tractor in 2022 and is pushing into machine learning to help increase agricultural production. As of 2024, it was among a small number of companies that have been on the Fortune 500 every year since the list’s inception in 1955.

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Founder and CEO Jehiel Oliver explains his company’s mission.


This tractor company is like the Uber of agriculture

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So how did you even discover that this was a problem that needed to be solved? Because you're not a farmer by training, I got a little herb garden, okay, in Nairobi right now, I got some wilted basil waiting on me. Um So I come from finance and when I left traditional banking, I started working in microfinance, always, No, I want to do work that was meaningful for me and working in microfinance, I observed that most of the global poor these banks service, but they didn't have agricultural products they don't lend in agriculture is too risky. Uh And so, you know, I thought, how can you get resources uh to these farmers, so they can actually get themselves out of poverty and and their resources is the farm is the land that they grow on. Um So that kind of directed me to working in agriculture, still in finance and that's where I observed that, you know, farmers just don't have access to tractors across emerging markets. Um in africa at least mechanized region on earth as a result of that, the farmers plant late, they under cultivate their land and they lose income um and and they're trapped in that cycle of poverty. And you break that cycle by bringing them the resources that they need to increase their productivity and increase the food security in the communities that they live in. And so that was kind of what directed us to to attack this problem. And the good thing about mechanization is that, you know, you're almost insulated from a lot of the risks in agriculture, you're not exposed to the weather, risks, plant disease. Um, you know, droughts, uh market risk, you know, price volatility of the underlying commodities being grown because because the farmers invest in mechanization upfront, right, So you can build a business around that and that's what we did. So Nigeria was your first market. Why did you pick that as the test case? Have you heard afrobeat music? Um we, we we chose Nigeria because it's a massive, it's the biggest economy in Africa. I wanted to work in Africa, very passionate about developing the continent. Um and Nigeria is the biggest market um and it's also the most populous country and quite frankly with the largest inventory of uncultivated farmland on earth. Uh Nigeria needs to develop agriculture for us to meet our caloric intake both in Africa but also globally and um and a big part of the challenge is that the farmers are confronted with is a lack of mechanization. The yield, the global yield gap when you compare what the average yields are for maze, um you know, rice wheat, the major commodities and what Nigerian farmers are producing 50% of that gap roughly is because they don't have access to tractors and that was an interesting kind of intersection of challenges, but also opportunities and that's what attracted us. So I want to go to questions in a second here, but you know, you started out selling hardware, right? In hardware, I don't know what you're talking about tractors. I don't even know what, you know, we did. We did. It was a mistake. Yeah. We learned why did you switch? What happened? It's hard to be a tractor manufacturer. It turns out, I mean, I think we, it seems obvious right there no tractors, we can make them. And so we had a contract manufacturer wasn't flex, but I did enjoy flexes presentation a couple of sessions ago. Um, but we work with the manufacturer in china and we thought we could bring low cost, low horsepower equipment into the continent with the connectivity in the marketplace attached to it. That's a lot. Well that, and my wife, she always says I'm doing too much. That's her. And, and in this case she was, she was right. And so, um, but we learned about the challenges that our partners today face, like john Deere and their dealer networks because we ourselves were trying to be a john Deere and a john Deere dealer. We identify challenges in deploying credit in these markets because we were trying to originate loans on behalf of our customers so they can buy our tractors. And I think that intelligence helped to guide our, our technology roadmap and our solution ng for our customer, it put things on our radar that we wouldn't have even considered, um, when we initially started. And so it was, it was a huge mistake and I'm very thankful that we pivoted away from that business, but we learned a lot in the process and I wouldn't change it.

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