Agricultural machinery specialist Deere (NYSE:DE) — which conducts business as John Deere — encountered choppy price action in the market on Friday. Regional news reports indicate that management will implement job cuts. Obviously, the John Deere layoffs are most damaging to the impacted workers. However, the move also features broader economic implications. On Thursday, KWQC — a news channel based out of Davenport, Iowa — stated that it obtained a Deere corporate memo regarding a mandatory meeting set for ...