Welland Works

[Jack Frost]

The Welland Ontario plant is 20 min from where I live. I have many friends and family members that have worked at the plant for years. The anouncement that it will be closed in 2009 was a blindside to most! The company that I work for hauls frieght for the JD plant and the closure will affect us as well as many other businesses in the area. It has been a tough go for a few years in this area for manufacturing with the closure of many plants and mills with many more on the brink!

[robtan88]

Rich. you would be correct. the gator production, will move to Horicon, and the loaders,and rotary mower production, to Mexico. Wellend production is already beginning to slow.....Rob.

[Deere Daze]

I have alot of customers that work there.I have known the production manager for about 4 years and this was in the works for about 3years, but John Deere didnt want the word gettin out.The last 2 years there was large amounts of people being let go due to lack of work.Its really sad that they are moving, there was about 600 people who worked there full time and now they wont have anyways to support their families..

[ONTARIO72jd500]

truly a sad day indeed to loose the only canadian john deere factory john deere has a rich history in ontario and canada and with the closing of the plant it is important more then ever to preserve john deere's ontario and canadian history their is a dealership in the museum not far from here mcduffe implement company mcduffe were in bussiness fron the late 20's untill the some time in the 60's when the dealership burned down in a fire the one in the musum is a mock of that dealership their is a plaque infront of the building with a description of the history of the building mcduffe were the first to be a full independent jd dealer for ontario and canada after that others signed on as dealers before that george white were canadian and ontario distrbuters of john deere when the museam started in the 70's by the ontario goverment john deere canada took on the project of the building compling as much info about dealership as possible collecting lititure and memrabilia from the mcduffe dealership this was a hard job beacuase all the original iteams had burned in the fire the building also houses the john deere canada collection of jd tractors and as of late the the two ontario john deere clubs have been looking after the building i thought i would share a litte ontario and canada john deere history.John

[ONTARIO72jd500]

John Deere dealership in country heritage park (formerly the ontario agricultrial museum) Milton Ontario