John Deere Plows

It all started in 1837.  A blacksmith named John Deere took a steel saw blade and fashioned it into a plow bottom.  The rich prairie soil, which had stuck to cast-iron bottoms of the day, polished the carefully shaped new surface of the John Deere Plow. 165 years later John Deere is one of the oldest corporations in the United States and still continues to offer reliable plows. John Deere's plows are designed to meet farmers conservation needs while handling heavy crop residues rocky fields, bigger acreages and increasing fuel costs. While no-till farming is a popular modern farming practice that John Deere offers many implements to handle, many areas still find clean till on a rotational basis helps control insects, weeds and plant diseases. Framers can choose from 2 to 5 bottom integral plows, 4 to 8 bottom semi-integral plows,  and 4 to 12 bottom  John Deere flex plows.  In the 1970's John Deere offered toggle trip plows like the 12 bottom plow pictured on the farm left below. Ertl offers a 4 bottom 3pt hitch 1/16 scale John plow today. Ertl offered a 1/16  6 bottom John Deere plow from 1982 to 2000 and a 1/16 Precision Classic F145 5 bottom plow in the mid-1990's. Pictured above is C&D Models 1/64 green 12 bottom plow. 

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