21 of ~30 facilities (NA scope)666 dock doors1,999 trailer spots3 rail-served
We core-sampled 21 of ~30 plants, Deere's FY2025 10-K reports 27 US/Canada factories plus 12 distribution facilities; we satellite-audited 21 of its North American manufacturing and parts sites.
Network size: Deere & Company FY2025 Form 10-K, Item 2 Properties (as of 2025-11-02): 27 US/Canada factories + 12 distribution facilities; https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0000315189/000110465925122321/de-20251102x10k.htm (2025-11-02)
Public audit. Not affiliated with John Deere. Data from satellite imagery + public records.
Click any site for its gate, docks, and drop yards. No badge, no NDA, just what a driver sees.
Your TMS runs the road. Your WMS runs the building. The yards are the tier between them, and they were never on the network.
Every truck gets re-keyed, re-queued, and re-found at each step. The lost time lives between the steps, which is why no single tool ever fixed it. The audit below is that gap, measured on your real yards.
A real audited site, played gate→dock→exit on the true yard geometry. Switch sites with the picker.
Driver rolls past the gate, looks for instructions on where to drop.
Movement durations are honest floors set by yard geometry; the uplift lands on the wait fields (queue + dispatch + secondary checkpoints). “Today” timings reflect the radios-and-clipboards world; “With YardFlow” reflects the protocol acting end-to-end. We may be wrong about parts of this, your actual numbers will tell us where.
Read from satellite + Street View across all 21 facilities. At a comparable network, Primo Brands cut drop-and-hook turns from ~48 to ~24 min. Set your real volumes and margins in the calculator to put a number on it.
Three patterns held across the sites we sampled. None of them show up on a facility list. All of them change how the yard runs.
Waterloo IA is 620 acres of tractor manufacturing. Deere has been building Iowa-made tractors here since 1918.
Milan IL PDC is 215 acres with 90 dock doors. The largest aftermarket parts DC in agriculture.
3 of 21 audited sites are rail-served. Whole goods leave on flatbed; parts move on truckload.
This audit is the evidence. The model is the math. Open the calculator seeded with John Deere’s audited yards, set your real volumes and margins, and it sizes the opportunity to the dollar.
This deep-dive is the evidence behind the /for/john-deere memo.
Tell us where we got it wrong, or see what 15 minutes of orchestration looks like on your worst site.
A 30-minute call, direct with Casey. We show you what we found across your yards, you tell us straight where it fits and where it does not. If the call goes well, we talk pilot. If not, you keep the analysis.
None of these times work? Email me at casey@freightroll.com or call or text me at 410-236-7434, and we’ll find one.
Casey Larkin, YardFlow. Jake, our founder, joins when it helps.
