Cover tractor of the month Fastline Mid-Atlantic Edition. Owned and restored by Steve Willis, Shelby, NC. The John Deere A tractor and 6 disk plow were purchased in 1040 by Lester Allen from C.J ...

WATSONVILLE, Calif. — The Watsonville Police Department needs your help finding the owner of a John Deere disc plow that was recently found abandoned on Hammer Drive near Arthur Road.

John Deere — the man — in 1837 invented the steel plow that opened the American prairie to the pioneers. He put his company next to the first railroad bridge across the Mississippi so that ...

John and his son Charles expanded the company through clever marketing and financial acumen making Deere & Company the largest plow manufacturer in the world. The company continue to expand making ...

That changed in 1837, when a 23-year-old blacksmith named John Deere introduced the first steel plow. Its smooth, durable design sliced through Midwestern soil with ease, helping farmers work more ...

[Related: John Deere tractors are getting the jailbreak treatment from hackers] Farming machinery has come a long way from that first saw blade plow John Deere built in 1837.

John Deere is currently considered the best-selling tractor brand in the United States — and the world. Since 1837, John Deere has designed and sold almost 700 tractor models.