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John Deere
Cast Steel Plow
- John Deere designed the first cast steel plow that
greatly helped the Great Plains farmers. The large plows made for
cutting the tough prairie ground were called "grasshopper plows."
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plow was made of wrought iron and had a steel share that could cut
through sticky soil without clogging. By 1855, John Deere's factory was
selling over 10,000 steel plows a year.
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