UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C.  20549

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report: February 26, 2014

(Date of earliest event reported)

D E E R E  &  C O M P A N Y

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

One John Deere Place

Moline, Illinois 61265

(Address of principal executive offices and zip code)

(309) 765-8000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

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Item 5.07         Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

(a)       The Deere & Company (“Company”) annual meeting of stockholders was held on February 26, 2014.

(b)      The voting results for each matter submitted to a vote of stockholders at the Company’s annual meeting are as follows:

1.            The following directors were elected for terms expiring at the annual meeting in 2015:

2.            A Company proposal, required by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, requesting that stockholders approve a non-binding resolution to approve the compensation awarded by the Company to the Company’s Named Executive Officers (“say on pay”) as described in the Compensation Discussion & Analysis (“CD&A”), tabular disclosures, and other narrative executive compensation disclosures in the January 13, 2014 Proxy Statement as required by the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, passed with the following vote:

3.            Deloitte & Touche LLP was ratified as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the 2014 fiscal year with the following vote:

(c)       At the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders in 2011, stockholders approved, on an advisory basis, to hold an annual advisory vote to approve executive compensation.  In keeping with the stockholders’ advisory vote, the Board of Directors has decided that it will include an advisory stockholder vote on executive compensation in its proxy materials on an annual basis each year until the next required advisory vote on the frequency of stockholder votes on executive compensation, which will occur no later than the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders in 2017.

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Signature

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereto duly authorized.

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