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Kinze announces layoffs; Deere brings some back

Farm equipment maker Kinze Manufacturing of Williamsburg, Iowa is laying off 215 workers due to a slowdown in ag equipment sales.

The company released a statement saying that current demand for its planters and grain carts does not support full staffing.

Meanwhile, John Deere says that it is recalling approximately 60 laid-off manufacturing employees to its Waterloo Works operation in Waterloo, Iowa.  In a statement provided to Brownfield, John Deere says the recall is because of attrition, mainly due to retirements, and that recalls are completed on a seniority basis.

Since last October, Deere has trimmed about one-thousand workers from its six-thousand employee work force.