The Deere family eked out a living and in 1821 John Deere commenced a blacksmith apprenticeship. For the 17-year-old, the blacksmithing trade would influence the remainder of his life.

An era ends for the plow that built John Deere — and America More and more farmers use no-till planting practices that don't need to turn over soil.

While John thought as a blacksmith, Charles thought as an industrialist and was to play the leading role in making his father’s business the leading producer of agricultural implements. In 1860, ...

Flushed with success, John Deere began buying his steel in Pittsburgh and manufacturing his plows in Moline, Ill. The first models he turned out sold for 10 bucks, a price the farmers liked.

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A broken saw blade and the Mississippi River brought John Deere and Moline together. The broken saw blade inspired Mr. Deere to build his self-scouring plow in 1837. The Mississippi River was a ...

Despite being from Vermont, John Deere revolutionized farming in the Midwest when he forged his first steel plow at his blacksmith shop in Illinois in 1837. When the company expanded its line of ...

John Deere Plows to Top of Ergonomics Competition Dec 14, 2009 Humantech, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based ergonomics firm, announced the winners of its third annual Find It - Fix It Challenge TM, which ...

"Today John Deere is remembered - some say mistakenly - as the inventor of the steel plow. Who was this legendary man and how did he create the internationally renowned company that still bears his ...

John Deere introduced its first fully autonomous tractor at CES 2022 Wednesday in Las Vegas, aimed at removing a tedious task from a farmer’s workload.