Monday started out with us driving toward central Iowa. We got to see the largest strawberry in the state (no, it isn’t real).
When we stopped for gas, we parked next to a large truck full of squealing hogs. We are in Iowa.
Our destination for the day was the John Deere Museum in Waterloo.
John Deere was born in Vermont and moved to the Midwest in the 1830s. As a blacksmith, he wanted to help farmers by making a plow that would work best in the Iowa soil that was so different from what he had known in Vermont, and he did.
He and his son grew their company by building a variety of farm equipment products and a son-in-law joined them. Their work helped everyone.
Eventually Deere and Company saw the need to combine their products with power engines, and tractors were born. The green and yellow colors were used early on and have never changed.
Tractors now are modern and huge, but the concept and quality has never changed.
Loved going through this museum.
