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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Deere is taking the Internet of Things out into the field by developing new technologies and embracing existing ones to boost the efficiency of prepping, planting, feeding and harvesting with the ...

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 ...