Transcription: It all began when John Deere set up his one-man blacksmith shop at Grand Detour, Illinois in 1837. He soon forged the first commercially successful self-scouring steel plow. His plow design simply worked better in the sticky prairie soil than the cast iron and wooden plows of the day. This innovation helped to open the fertile Midwestern prairies to large-scale farming and settlement. The company has grown from a book to a book blacksmith shop to a worldwide corporation headquartered in Moline, Illinois.
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