Small Agriculture – Includes net sales of medium and utility tractors with less than approximately 200 horsepower, hay and forage equipment, balers, mowers, and related attachments and service parts.
Turf – Includes net sales of turf and utility equipment, including riding lawn equipment and walk-behind mowers, golf course equipment, utility vehicles, and commercial mowing equipment, along with a broad line of associated implements, other outdoor power products, and related attachments and service parts.
Construction – Includes net sales of a broad range of machines used in construction, earthmoving, and material handling, including backhoe loaders, crawler dozers and loaders, four-wheel-drive loaders, excavators, motor graders, articulated dump trucks, and related attachments and service parts.
Compact Construction – Includes net sales of smaller construction equipment, including compact excavators, compact track loaders, compact wheel loaders, skid steers, landscape loaders, and related attachments and service parts.
Roadbuilding – Includes net sales of equipment used in roadbuilding and renovation, including milling machines, recyclers, slipform pavers, surface miners, asphalt pavers, compactors, tandem and static rollers, mobile crushers and screens, mobile and stationary asphalt plants, and related attachments and service parts.
Forestry – Includes net sales of equipment used in timber harvesting, including log skidders, feller bunchers, log loaders, log forwarders, log harvesters, and related attachments and service parts.
Financial Products – Includes finance and interest income primarily from retail notes related to sales of John Deere equipment to end customers, wholesale financing to dealers of John Deere equipment, and revolving charge accounts; lease income from retail leases of John Deere equipment; and revenue from extended warranties.
Other – Includes sales of certain components to other equipment manufacturers, revenue earned over time from precision guidance, telematics, and other information enabled solutions, revenue from service performed at company owned dealerships and service centers, gains on disposition of property and businesses, trademark licensing revenue, and other miscellaneous revenue items.
The Company invoices in advance of recognizing the sale of certain products and the revenue for certain services. These items are primarily for premiums for extended warranties, advance payments for future equipment sales, and subscription and service revenue related to precision guidance and telematic services. These advanced customer payments are presented as deferred revenue, a contract liability, in “Accounts payable and accrued expenses” in the consolidated balance sheet. The deferred revenue received, but not recognized in revenue, including extended warranty premiums also shown in Note 16, was $1,070$1,077 million, $1,010 million and $956$1,014 million at February 2,May 3, 2020, November 3, 2019, and January 27,April 28, 2019, respectively. The contract liability is reduced as the revenue is recognized. During the three months ended February 2,May 3, 2020 and January 27,April 28, 2019, $181$97 million and $156$103 million, respectively, of revenue was recognized from deferred revenue that was recorded as a contract liability at the beginning of the respective fiscal year. During the six months ended May 3, 2020 and April 28, 2019, $278 million and $265 million, respectively, of revenue was recognized from deferred revenue that was recorded as a contract liability at the beginning of the respective fiscal year.
The Company entered into contracts with customers to deliver equipment and services that have not been recognized at February 2,May 3, 2020 because the equipment or services have not been provided. These contracts primarily relate to extended warranty and certain precision guidance and telematic services. The amount of unsatisfied performance obligations for contracts with an original duration greater than one year is $887$907 million at February 2,May 3, 2020. The estimated revenue to be recognized by fiscal year follows in millions of dollars: remainder of 2020 - $275,$214, 2021 - $274,$320, 2022 - $182,$205, 2023 - $101,$109, 2024 - $42,$45, and later years - $13.$14. The Company discloses unsatisfied performance obligations with an original contract duration greater than one year. The contracts with an expected duration of one year or less are generally for sales to dealers and end customers for equipment, service parts, repair services, and certain telematics services.
As explained in the 2019 Form 10-K, the Company’s policy on trade accounts and notes receivables is to not extend interest-free periods nor to forgive interest charged. During the second quarter of 2020, the Company provided short-term payment relief on trade accounts and notes receivables to independent dealers and certain other customers (customers) that are negatively affected by the economic effects of COVID. The relief was provided both in regional programs and case-by-case situations with creditworthy customers. This relief generally included payment deferrals not exceeding three months, extending interest-free periods for up to an additional three months with the total interest-free period not to exceed one year, or reducing interest rates for a maximum of three months. The trade receivable balance granted relief in the second quarter was $707 million with $585 million outstanding, or approximately 10 percent of the trade receivable portfolio, at May 3, 2020. These actions were taken in response to the sudden, severe economic effects of COVID on customers. Outside of these actions, the Company is not modifying its normal sales terms with customers that are outlined in the 2019 Form 10-K.
