If you farm in southern Indiana or southern Ohio, wheat harvest is two to three weeks out. By the time you read this, somebody on the south end of Posey County or Switzerland County is probably already watching the calendar more closely than they would admit. Combines that ran clean last fall are sitting in the shed, full of last year's chaff, and the to-do list that you swore you'd handle in February is still waiting in the cab.

Essentials by John Deere gives Customers of mid‑ to late‑lifecycle equipment more ways to keep machines running reliably, with quality parts at a more affordable price point than traditional options. It's designed to help your older equipment without spending too much, while still buying with confidence from John Deere and Koenig Equipment.

Our “See & Spray Myth Busting” Customer Event is a hands-on, field-based day built to help Ohio and Indiana growers cut through the noise, see the technology work in real conditions, and decide if John Deere See & Spray fits their operation.

If you have spent any time on the Gator section of our site, you have probably noticed something. There are two main families of John Deere Gators, and they live in very different places on the lot. The HPX series sits in the Work series row, painted the kind of utilitarian green that looks right at home next to a skid steer. The XUV series sits a few rows over, often with brighter trim, a cargo bed that tilts a little quicker, and a seat that hints at more weekend miles.

John Deere See & Spray is proving it can quietly add 1–2 bushels per acre in soybeans while cutting herbicide use, based on both university research and the on-farm trials we’ve run with customers here in Ohio and Indiana. This isn’t theory or marketing talk; it’s product validation from real-world fields that look like yours.

You've got land. A few acres, maybe more. And somewhere between the overgrown pasture, the rutted driveway, the brush pile that's been growing since last fall, and the snow you know is coming again in February — you've started thinking about equipment.

The first compact tractor purchase is one of the most-researched and least-confident buying decisions our customers make. Spending $14,000 on something used feels different than buying a riding mower. It feels different than buying a car too, because you can't Carfax a tractor and you can't easily test-drive one on a property that's not yours.