Deere & Company (NYSE:DE) Q3 2023 Earnings Conference Call August 18, 2023 10:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Brent Norwood - Director of Investor Relations

Josh Rohleder - Manager of Investor Communications

Josh Jepsen - Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Jerry Revich - Goldman Sachs

Jamie Cook - Credit Suisse

Tim Thein - Citigroup

Steven Fisher - UBS

Kristen Owen - Oppenheimer

Rob Wertheimer - Melius Research

Steve Volkmann - Jefferies

David Raso - Evercore

Tami Zakaria - JPMorgan

Chad Dillard - Bernstein

Seth Weber - Wells Fargo Securities

Operator

Good morning, and welcome to Deere & Company's Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call. Your lines have been placed on listen-only until the question-and answer session of today's conference.

I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Brent Norwood, Director of Investor Relations. Thank you, sir. You may begin.

Brent Norwood

Hello. Also on the call today are Josh Jepsen, Chief Financial Officer, and Josh Rohleder, Manager of Investor Communications.

Today, we'll take a closer look at Deere's third quarter earnings, then spend some time talking about our markets and our current outlook for fiscal year 2023. After that, we'll respond to your questions.

Please note that slides are available to complement the call this morning. They can be accessed on our website at johndeere.com/earnings.

First, a reminder. This call is being broadcast live on the Internet and recorded for future transmission and use by Deere & Company. Any other use, recording, or transmission of any portion of this copyrighted broadcast without the express written consent of Deere is strictly prohibited. Participants in the call, including the Q&A session, agree that their likeness and remarks in all media may be stored and used as part of the earnings call.

This call includes forward-looking statements concerning the company's plans and projections for the future that are subject to uncertainties, risks, changes, and circumstances and other factors that are difficult to predict. Additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to differ materially is contained in the company's most recent Form 8-K, risk factors in the annual Form 10-K, as updated by reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

This call also may include financial measures that are not in conformance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, GAAP. Additional information concerning these measures, including reconciliations to comparable GAAP measures, is included in the release and posted on our website at johndeere.com/earnings under Quarterly Earnings & Events.