---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-118224"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DE"
cik: "0000315189"
company_name: "DEERE & CO"
filed_at: "2025-12-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T14:57:53.102933+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Deere appoints Cargill CEO Brian Sikes to board; Raj Kalathur to retire Jan 2026

## Summary
- Brian Sikes (Cargill Chair, President & CEO) elected to Deere board effective Dec 4, 2025, increasing board size from 10 to 11.
- Raj Kalathur to retire as President, John Deere Financial and CIO effective Jan 31, 2026.
- Sikes appointed to Compensation and Corporate Governance committees.
- Board now comprises 10 independent, non-employee directors out of 11 total.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-118224
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DE
- cik: 0000315189
- company_name: DEERE & CO
- filed_at: 2025-12-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/315189/000110465925118224/0001104659-25-118224-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/315189/000110465925118224/de-20251203x8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-118224
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-118224.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-118224.txt

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