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Wed Nov 24, 2021, 09:45 AM Nov 2021

Deere posts profit surge on soaring farm income

Reuters

Deere posts profit surge on soaring farm income

Abhijith Ganapavaram
Wed, November 24, 2021, 6:51 AM

By Abhijith Ganapavaram

(Reuters) -Deere & Co surpassed market estimates for quarterly profit on Wednesday, as a surge in crop and livestock prices encouraged farmers to splurge on tractors and combines.

The results sent shares of the world's largest farm equipment maker 3% higher in premarket trading and eased some fears around the impact of a worker strike that had hit Deere's operations for about three weeks of the fourth quarter.

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