When I think of John Deere Products, it always reminds me of green tractors with yellow deer logos on the farm land, I see them here and there whenever I go for a drive on the country roads. I am a city dweller so I know nothing about farming and the equipment, however when I opened my web business about a year ago and I was so surprised to see so many of his collectibles. Just like sports fans, people are actually collecting and buying John Deere decorations. There are thousands of novelty license plates and decals. There are not only auto license plates and decorative license plates but also light switch covers and parking signs.

Interestingly enough, last year I got to know some farmer friends. Several of them are avid Fans, and of course their farming equipment are his products with his front license plates on them. Like little kids collecting different stickers, I have seen lots of farmers collecting T-shirts, hats and other collectibles. In fact they are very proud of themselves being his fans. The whole thing about the popularity of his collectibles was kind of a shock to me. I thought that only sports teams and celebrities had a fan club and people especially teens are crazy enough to buy and collect any merchandise on the planet. John Deere fans are a little bit different, they use the equipment on a daily bases for their work and their satisfaction from the products makes them fans of him.

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Since my topic is John Deere, I was curious about him and how the company got so big. He was born in a small village in Vermont in USA in 1804. He didn't inherit any fortune nor a company. He was just a regular person with a meager education. At the age 17, he took a four year apprenticeship with a prosperous blacksmith in town, and entered the trade for himself. Later on he faced bankruptcy with five children. Can you imagine the man's struggle and stress, being a sole bread winner in a family with six dependents? So, he had to leave his family behind to earn money. He settled in Grand Detour Illinois where he could find a lot of work because there were no other blacksmiths in the area.

Earlier in his life, from his father's tailor shop, Deere polished and sharpened needles by running them through sand. This polishing made the needles sew through tough leather a lot easier. Remembering the knowledge, he realized that a plow made out of polished steel and correctly shaped would be much easier to handle through the tough soil of the Midwest. He invented the first commercially successful steel plow in 1837. The plow was so popular and successful that Deere and his partner were selling a thousand a year by 1846. In 1868 his business was incorporated as Deere & Company, which has been growing as the largest agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers ,serving internationally. What an incredible true entrepreneur and also an inventor was. Once I got to learn more about John Deere and his company, I got myself a novelty license plates saying "Nothing runs like a Deere."

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Even in this high-tech age kids still love the same John Deere products that have been around for generations. Decorate your birthday boy's party with a whole range of John Deere birthday party supplies and you'll see.

Setting the table is a piece of cake with a John Deere Deluxe Pack. Plates, cups, napkins, tablecloth,... everything you need to dish out the dessert. But it also has a set of Thank You notes to send to the guests after the party. Beginning and end. That's a nice traditional circle.

Get ready for a lot of old-fashioned family-oriented fun, because there are a lot more John Deere party goods to decorate your party just right.

You can greet the guests with a themed Personalized Birthday Banner. It features an image of the tractor that everyone recognizes. Now add your own words. Make the message anything you want.

That same landmark tractor provides the shape for the 17" John Deere pinata. Fill it up with candy and small toys. Some of that candy could be from Marshmallow Farms. Featuring the cutest chicken, pig, cow, and sheep you ever saw, they'll get gobbled right down. Watch those kids eyes open wide when they come spilling out.

Be sure to take some photos with the kids seating in the John Deere Tractor Stand-in. Just like in carnivals from yesteryear, kids put their head through the hole and smile, smile, smile.

Don't forget the Cowboy Hats! Dress the birthday boy or girl in a full Horse Costume. Wrap that Red Bandana around and click the shutter. You can wear the Sheriff Badge, so they know who is in charge.

Others can wear a John Deere Hat and T-shirt. And don't forget to show them the John Deere scroll you had prepared. Personalized, it records all the unique events that occurred the day your child was born.

To decorate the cake in the style of the day be sure to use the John Deere cake topper. There's that tractor again, you know. Since the cake is decorated to look like wheat fields, it's the perfect choice. Don't forget the supplied fence (to keep those candy cows out, you know), and three trees. Snap that perfect picture.

The kids will be ready for some fun Coloring & Activity Book action after that, you can bet. With 32 pages and four crayons, they'll be kept busy. After that, they can all settle down and watch the John Deere for Kids DVD. It features entertaining segments on how to harvest pumpkins and offers lively music.

But, hey, doesn't somebody have to do the dishes? Nope, because you got the Ultimate John Deere Party Pack you just toss the stuff away.

Ah.... Now, aint' that cozy?

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"I will never put my name on a plow that does not have in it the best that is in me". This was a promise made by John Deere early in his career. More than 150 years later, this statement continues to hold true. However, it cuts a much wider swath than the tractors that still proudly bear his name.

John Deere started a revolution in the farming industry when he developed the world's first commercially successful steel plow. It didn't take long for farmers to recognize that anything bearing the John Deere symbol was worth hanging on to. As early as 1916 the John Deere logo began to appear on smaller items "to make sure that farmers appreciate the value of John Deere souvenirs'. Even then, farmers were proud to pay a 'small charge' for merchandise bearing the John Deere name.

Today, it's not just farmers who live and breathe John Deere Green. From caps to t-shirts, jackets to sportswear, the John Deere logo continues to be an internationally recognized symbol of quality as well as a classic piece of Americana. Shirts and tractor caps emblazoned with the John Deere logo take us back to a simpler time, to the farming roots of our ancestors. John Deere Green is as American as baseball and apple pie and is a tradition proudly worn by millions, from farmers and ranchers to hip urbanites. Subsequently many people like to have John Deere themed birthday parties. The party industry has catered for this unusual birthday idea and there are as a consequence many John Deere Party Supplies available.

Thanks in part to Ashton Kutcher's 2002 appearance on MTV sporting a John Deere tractor cap, John Deere hats have become one of the most highly sought after items, both in stores and on the internet. Since that time, hundreds of thousands of hats have been sold to trend-seekers from all over the world. Demand for clothing branded with the John Deere logo has resulted in an unparalleled merchandising trend that has expanded to include, to name just a few:

• an exclusive women's line of 'pink' John Deere clothing
• children's wear
• Jackets
• sweaters
• sportswear

Brenda Kruse, author of John Deere Collectibles (MBI Publishing, 2001) writes 'Rarely does a brand reach the level of worldwide popularity that John Deere has since its humble beginnings in Illinois. As a result of its stunningly successful history since 1837, Deere & Company has established and maintained a loyal following of both customers and collectors."

So whether you're a traditionalist proud to wear a symbol of American farming history or someone making a fashion statement with the latest John Deere trend, the 'Green' symbol speaks for itself. It's pretty hard not to love a John Deere hat, no matter who you are.

Author: Kathy Matkin

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"I will never put my name on a product that does not have in it the best that is in me." - John Deere

JOHN DEERE

In 1962, a University of Illinois archaeological team unearthed the exact location of the blacksmith shop where John Deere
developed the first successful steel plow in 1837. The site is now preserved by an exhibit hall complete with a simulated
conversation between John and Demarius Deere talking about their every events on the farm and his development of the
self-polishing steel plow that eventually opened the prairie to agriculture.

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GO WEST YOUNG MAN

As a young journeyman blacksmith in Middlebury, Vermont, John Deere soon gained fame for his considerable workmanship and
ingenuity. It was a golden age of the burgeoning pioneer and John headed west to join the adventure. It took him many weeks
by canal boat, lake boat and stagecoach to reach Grand Detour, Illinois - a journey of more than a thousand miles that could
easily be accomplished in 16 hours by car today.

BLACKSMITH

The cast iron plows the pioneers used were designed for sandy New England and proved no match for the rich Midwestern soil.
So Deere decided to come up with something better, he took an old steel saw blade and made a plow with a properly shaped
moldboard and share that scoured itself as it turned the furrow slice, basically it was a self-cleaning plow blade that made
the hard work fast.

MASS APPEAL

In his day it was common practice for blacksmiths to build tools as customers ordered them, however seeing the future as it
was, Deere decided to start hammering out the new plows without orders. It was an entirely new way of doing business and made
John Deere a very popular man.

NOTHING RUNS LIKE A DEER

Ten years after he developed his first plow, Deere was producing a 1000 plows a year. Many years later in 1911, the company
purchased the Waterloo Gasoline Traction Engine Company and tractors were added to production line. By 1955 they were the
leading producer of farm equipment in the world. Today, the company has become globally renowned with net sales exceeding
$640 million dollars.

COMMITMENT

Constant research and development has always been key to the John Deere company, as Deere himself once said, 'They haven't got to take what we make and somebody else will beat us, and we will lose our trade." To this day, the company spends more on research and development than most other companies in its industry.

LEGENDARY

February 7, 2004 marked the 200th birthday of John Deere, the man. His one man blacksmith shop in 1836 has spawned one of the most celebrated equipment manufacturing companies in the world.

LEAPING FORWARD

The famous leaping deer logo has gone through several changes over the years. Deere first registered it for use in 1876, it read 'John Deere - Moline, Illinois'. Interestingly, the first deer to appear on the logo was an African deer and not the American white tail used today. Over the years the wording changed and the deer was simplified into line art versus the illustration style of the original. Eventually the deer as the only thing on the logo and it simply read, 'John Deere'. The clean cut 1968 version was updated in 200 with the deer leaping up and forward rather than down and forward. The famous green and yellow leaping deer logo that you can get now at http://www.t-shirtking.com has become a hip and modern symbol of John Deere's and Americans' ingenuity and integrity.

THE CLASSIC

The John Deere Classic, a charitable golf tournament is played on a course built in the Friendship Farm in Illinois. For many years the farm had been one of the top Arabian horse breeding operations in the United States and the property still maintains a natural beauty to this day. In 2003, $1.5 million dollars was donated to more than 400 charities to benefit children, families and handicapped individuals. This is just one of the many reasons that John Deere was named one of the 100 Best Corporate Citizens for 2002 by Business Ethics magazine.

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John Deere the name is instantly recognizable to anyone who grew up in the United States. While the company is indeed well known elsewhere in the world as well, John Deere is an American icon and its distinctive green and gold logo is appreciated far beyond its Illinois home. One idea for a birthday party is to have a John Deere themed birthday party and of course to make it a great day why not some John Deere toys as birthday presents. Of ocurse you will need soem great John Deere party supplies which can be found in our party shop!

Generations of children have grown up on Toy John Deere tractors and other miniature John Deere farm equipment. Even children who have never set foot on a farm are intimately familiar with the company's line of Farm Machinery Tanks, Toy Tractors and the Power Loader and some of their other most popular toys.

Perhaps the most sought after out of all Toy John Deere collections are those toys which are manufactured and sold by the company itself such as the John Deere Toy Lawnmower. These are not as widely available as are other toy versions of John Deere products, they must be purchased through a John Deere dealer rather than at a toy store. This relative scarcity has made them highly prized by toy collectors, but the company now also sells these high quality tractors and other products via the web.

Most likely the most popular toys are the John Deere licensed line which are available at Toy Stores, including national chainstores and retailers. These products are reasonably priced and have been the foundation of many cherished childhood memories - there are even John Deere toy tractors which are designed for children to ride in, much like the Big Wheel Toys you may remember and that I personally rode on for years as a small child.

Many adults also remember these products from their own youth, ensuring that these toys will remain popular for many years to come as a love of these toys is passed down from generation to generation. A childhood without John Deere seems almost unthinkable and it is great to know that each new generation of children are just as enthralled with John Deere Toy Tractors, combined with the many other toy versions of their product line which have enchanted young and old alike for many decades now. I'd go as far as to say this company is a household name and icon worldwide.

Speaking of adults, there are many grown-ups who have made a hobby of collecting these popular Toy John Deere products. Anyone who has a fascination with machinery and a love of top quality craftsmanship will find a lot of things to enjoy about these toys and you may see many a collection in the family garage or basement rec room, for the adults in the household only! These toys aren't only for children, and I feel many people are baffled when they hear this!

So which John Deere Toy collection is the most popular? With several different lines of products, both licensed and manufactured by the John Deere company itself, all of which are excellent and have a lasting intergenerational appeal, it's a moot point. They serve niches as unique as John Deere Toy Airseeders.

All of these products have a hold on the imagination of kids of all ages, much as the iconic deer logo of the company has a firm hold in the collective imagination of the American public. After all, who doesn't love a tractor and the chance to get a little dirty? That's the thought that was racing through my head as I visited a friends house and saw a muddy John Deere Tractor lying upside down on the end of a mud puddle.

Author: Brian Garvin

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