There were certain chores for which I was not entrusted in my pre-teen summers on the farm. Among them was plowing. Plowing took a steady hand at the tractor wheel and experience to keep the fields ...

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 ...

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 ...

Five-year partner and longtime friend of John Deere, Robert N. Tate kept track of his association with the plowing pioneer in a series of handwritten diaries. Excerpts from those writings, along with ...

Twin grails that changed U.S. history—a pair of steel, moldboard plows crafted in the flesh by the hands of John Deere and bought directly from the American titan’s Illinois shop in 1839 and 1840—sit ...

Cover tractor of the month Fastline Mid-Atlantic Edition. Owned and restored by Steve Willis, Shelby, NC. The John Deere A tractor and 6 disk plow were purchased in 1040 by Lester Allen from C.J.

NOKOMIS, Ill. (KWQC) - A sign that officials are calling “the greatest John Deere sign of all time” is set to sell at auction. Aumann Auctions said the John Deere Gilpin Plow Sign was recently ...

John Deere & Co. (DE) appears to have relied on “disciplined cost management” to plow through what has been considered the roughest period in the farming since the Depression. Friday, some analysts ...

JOHN Deere is claiming greater precision and productivity with the green machine’s new 2430 chisel plow, which replaces the 2410 model. The upgraded 2430 now includes John Deere’s TruSet precision ...

The Watsonville Police Department needs your help finding the owner of a John Deere disc plow that was recently found abandoned on Hammer Drive near Arthur Road.They believe it may have been stolen ...