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This doesn't surprise me. I've been dealing with John Deere for over 30 years. JD corporate are the biggest bunch of pricks in the wheeled vehicle market. They will sue you over anything. I had to give a deposition over a trade mark infringement case brought by Deere. Some other company was bringing a tractor to market and it was green and yellow and Deere was pitching a fit. Deere sued a friend of mine for putting a photo of a John Deere on a calendar. About five years ago John Deere put on an antique tractor show at one of their facilities in Waterloo and invited us to come and display our magazines. I started to put my magazines out, and some bigshot marketing guy came along and saw that there were RED TRACTORS on the covers of some issues. The HORROR! He told me I couldn't display magazines unless have John Deeres on the cover in their facility. I packed up and left, and I'll never have anything to do with John Deere again. It did cost them a couple of bucks, I was at the point of deciding on which new tractor to buy and it was down to a John Deere and a Kubota. I got the Kubota.