The jokes kinda write themselves

[Jilly_in_VA]

Spousal unit and I were on the way back from a shopping trip musing about the prevalence of John Deere tractors in Ukraine and videos of them hauling away various bits of Russian military equipment amid the start of planting season. He suggested that John Deere could have a whole new series of commercials featuring Ukrainian farmers, with a percentage of sales going to Ukrainian relief.

"And you think YOU got trouble planting potatoes?"

Your contributions welcome.

[LakeArenal]

1. "It's potato!"🥔🥔

Edit: Almost everyone has a JD lawn tractor in WI.

Wisconsin grows a lot of potatoes.

Wisconsin potato production in 2019 totaled 28.7 million hundredweight, up 6 percent from 2018, according to the latest USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service – Potatoes 2019 Summary.

[rurallib]

2. Scene of Ukrainian farmer hauling away a tank

Voice over:
" John Deere: From clearing the fields to harvest time."

[erronis]

3. I can absolutely hear that voice now. And a happy farm family at the end of the day.

[Auggie]

4. "Nothing Fights Like a Deere"

Replaces the tagline, "Nothing Runs Like a Deere."

[True Dough]

5. "John Deere, not quite built like a tank...

but has no trouble towing one!"

[Sogo]

8. Love it!

And since my nephew works for New Holland, the tractor pictured in blue works, too!

[NJCher]

9. you have a future!

Madison Avenue copywriter!

That was a good one!

[L. Coyote]

6. American farmers fighting John Deere could have a commercial with

"You can repair your own Russian tank, but John Deere won't allow you to repair your own tractor."

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[TeamProg]

7. India had been absent in condemning Putin, so I hope Mahindra

tractors are boycotted.

Mahindra are the world’s no1 selling tractor.

John Deere are actually Yanmar.

[jaxexpat]

10. My grandfather had to use a team of mules to pull the WWI tanks from his fields.

Later, he used a Farmall M series to remove Hitler's panzer carcasses. Was quite an improvement over mules. By Vietnam war days, International Harvester had taken over Farmall and the "red" Chinese tanks were removed with red diesel IH tractors. My father and I removed Grenadan, Honduran and Nicaraguan tanks with a judicious mix of John Deere and Case - IH equipment during the roaring openly secret wars of father Reagan. The fields in my part of the world were pretty much dependent on John Deere to pull Hussein's mother of all piles-of-tank-debris off in time for the planter to pass. It's no wonder the Ukrainian farmer has seen the blessings of western agricultural technology manifest itself onto their tank burdened fields. Good season, my brothers of the plow.