It's no surprise to see John Deere equipment around Vermont in the summer months. Annual tractor parades in Charlotte, Dorset, Manchester, and Peacham − to name a few − are guaranteed to display the ...

The Feb. 7, 2004, bicentennial of John Deere’s birth passed quietly in his native Rutland. Likewise in Middlebury, where he got his start as a blacksmith, it was marked as a footnote rather than a ...

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 ...