His first wagon, the John Deere, didn’t have much paint on it when he got it. It was purchased locally, he said, from a man who bought it and had kept it in his barn.

But this was John Deere, the 180-year-old maker of huge tractors and huge combines and huge harvesters – maximum viable products.

If you had “40-year-old combine with under 700 hours” as this week’s “Pick of the Week” on your bingo card, go down to your local corner store and play your lucky numbers.

WEST OLIVE, MI – Ever since he was a boy growing up on a farm in northern Allegan County, Irv Boersen’s blood has run green – John Deere green. That's why the 68-year-old Boersen is looking ...