On a sunny Sunday afternoon, I braked as I came upon a tractor pulling two wagons full of just-harvested crops. I had no choice but to follow as the tractor crawled up a hill at 5 mph. The scenario is ...

At one point in America, there were some 160 companies trying to produce a farm tractor. Henry Ford built the Fordson tractor amid reports he wanted to buy John Deere. Those are just two of the many ...

This 1941 Model HNH is featured in the Art of the John Deere Tractor. This narrow configuration model based on the Model H and was produced for less than a year from March 11, 1941 to January 23, 1942 ...

Sparks flew from the disc of a hand-held angle grinder as a member of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Tractor Restoration Club adjusted the fit of a 1946 John Deere tractor’s grill. The club’s ...

To most people with even a passing interest in modern machinery, the name John Deere will immediately bring to mind an image of that yellow leaping deer against a green background, just as quickly as ...

In 1837, an Illinois blacksmith named John Deere built his first plow from a broken saw blade. One hundred years later, Emil Nietz was awash in a sea of green. Seeing an opportunity to supplement his ...