Spring frustrated many farmers, as they had to constantly stop to scrape the soil off the plow before continuing. John Deere devised a working solution; a plow that would scour. It centered on ...

Thirty years later, Deere’s plow success would be the inverse of Whitney’s gin debacle. Credit for the first steel plow may belong to farming’s forgotten man: John Lane. Mirroring Deere ...

“My family bought the plows directly from John Deere,” Sam Shaff says, “and the accounts I was told all said that Deere was an extremely busy, but very nice gentleman. The first plow cost $ ...

Amid this wild miscellany the old plow that John Deere made in his blacksmith shop in Grand Detour, Illinois, back in 1838 stood out like Abraham Lincoln waiting in line at a tag sale. This plow ...

You don’t have to dig much deeper to find that John Deere is plowing forward toward technology and autonomy in a way that may feel anachronistic to those outside the business. “It’s easy to ...