In another cost-cutting move, Deere and Company is launching an early retirement program.The ag, lawn and construction equipment maker hopes to cut its national workforce by eight-percent, or 12-hundred-50 employees, to save about 90-million dollars a year. Deere spokesman Ken Golden says workers who are in their 50s and early-60s can benefit the most, as 25-hundred workers will be offered the early retirement packages which include crediting three extra years of service or cash. Deere has about 15-thousand employees in the U-S. Quad City-based Deere is one of Iowa’s largest employers with major plants in Davenport, Waterloo, Dubuque and Ottumwa.