There’s a lot of news coming out of John Deere this week. In fact, it’s 23 news releases worth! You can find links to all of them in their media center or on AgWired in my previous post.

I thought the new numbering system was very interesting and called Barry Nelson, John Deere Public Relations Manager, just now. He’s dutifully working until the end of the day on a Friday. Aren’t we all?

Barry explains that as the company has grown globally they were finding that products had different names and numbering depending on what country you’re in. So they got a group together to come up with one consistent name/number system which can be used worldwide.

You can listen to Barry explain the new system here: john-deere-numbering-nelson.mp3