Over 185 years later, in February 2023, the last moldboard plow is set to roll off Deere’s assembly line, closing the curtain on a farming icon. Ranked by the Smithsonian among the tools that ...

The genius of blacksmith Deere’s innovation was to discard the cast-iron moldboard—the blade—from the traditional plow of the rocky farm fields of the East, and replace it with a dynamically ...

Brown Farm Museum. For several hours, around a dozen pre-1960 antique tractors and moldboard plows worked together to till 25 acres of farmland, recreating a long-standing farming tradition.

In 1833, Lane obtained a steel sawmill blade and cut away three strips, welding two to the moldboard and one to the share of an iron plow. Lane began crafting steel plows according to individual ...