Good Ole John Deere
Good Ole John Deere
John Deere the company would not have been possible without the determination of John Deere the man. From the time he created the first steel plow in 1837, Deere worked hard. He was committed to helping farmers handle their daily tasks with ease.
Demand for these plows increased. Deere moved the business from Grand Detour to Moline, IL in 1848. He chose this new location due to the power and transportation benefits it offered.
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Ah, John Deere, I competed against them day in and day out for 31+ years. The quiet secret is we actually liked our fellow Illinois construction/implement company and I had the privilege of talking to their IT organization on several occasions. You just won’t see me wearing that green shade ha.
Lol, yes my husband’s dad worked for the red tractor company 🙂
Very informative. One always wonders why so many simply keep using what they have or doing what everyone else does until someone decides to make improvements with new knowledge and new and better inventions and then everyone eventually catches up. This was the mark of a society on the rise. Thanks Sandra
You are very welcome RJ, I find it fascinating how people invent things, especially motors. How woman used to do laundry by hand, scrubbing cloths on those wash boards. Then someone came up with a machine that made their lives so much easier.
Know what the plow said to the tractor? “Pull me closer John Deere.”
Aww, that is a good one..🙂
Very large farm implements you have there Sandra -I think John Deere’s name is synonymous with farm equipment isn’t it?
Yes it is, green tractors and red ones, that is what I remember the most. Red ones are Case I think.
I used to see the big tractors along the 401 Highway when we drove to my grandmother’s house in Toronto.
Beautiful.
I wonder if today’s John Deere tractors still have that distinctive sound. We use to call those green tractors, ‘Popping Johnies’.
I bet the newer ones don’t. They are so quiet. Mostly computerized now. Like cars.
I remember (from teen years) mile after mile of nothing but wheat(??) fields.
Me to, I lived in Mn for awhile, lots of wheat up there.