You spot them everywhere: John Deere machines. That bright green color catches the eye, but there is another detail that raises some eyebrows about the company; John Deere hailed from Rutland, making ...
When John Deere picked up a broken bandsaw blade at an Illinois mill, brushed away the sawdust, and carted home the steel in 1837, he set agricultural revolution in motion via industrial scale ...
Walking around the exhibits at Farmfest last week, I had a "Wait, what?" moment. Amid its usual collection of giant John Deere combines and tractors, farm dealer Kibble Equipment had an ordinary plow ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. John Deere failed as a blacksmith in ...
The Feb. 7, 2004, bicentennial of John Deere’s birth passed quietly in his native Rutland. Likewise in Middlebury, where he got his start as a blacksmith, it was marked as a footnote rather than a ...
Tradition holds that this plow, held in the Smithsonian collections, is one of the first three plows that John Deere personally forged. National Museum of American History In 1837 in an Illinois ...
John Deere & Company (NYSE: DE), a leader in agricultural machinery and construction equipment, recently announced its third-quarter results, offering insights into its steadfast growth trajectory ...
It’s no exaggeration to say that John Lane’s 1834 invention was ground-breaking. At his pioneer farm in Homer Township, just east of present-day Lockport, blacksmith Lane devised the first steel plow, ...
John Deere & Company (NYSE: DE), a leader in agricultural machinery and construction equipment, recently announced its third-quarter results, offering insights into its steadfast growth trajectory ...