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 ...

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 ...

Another - referring to rival Massey-Ferguson and its red tractors - wrote: 'Looks like a lot of color ... cast iron plow that ...

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 ...

"The image of the Gilpin Plow has been widely used by John Deere over the years, but an original sign featuring this design had never surfaced-until now. A similar sign exists in the John Deere ...