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 ...

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 ...

Credit for the first steel plow may belong to farming’s forgotten man: John Lane. Foreshadowing Deere, Lane was a transplant Illinois blacksmith in Homer Township (present-day suburb of Chicago).

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 ...