New Holland ‘rocks’

The Glastonbury Festival in the UK celebrated its 40th anniversary this year. While the rock festival had to do without the talents of Bono and U2 (His Greatness is suffering from the equivalent of ‘farmers back’) it continues to have the support of New Holland. In May and June the New Holland tractors were on site helping to set up the festival. They were also there to help break down the site and return it to its natural state - as Worthy Farm, the working Somerset dairy farm that hosts the world’s most famous music festival. Working under the festival motto 'Love the farm, leave no trace', the team of 11 blue tractors, powered by 100 per cent biodiesel, shifted fencing, staging and rubbish to and from the fields.

5m lawn tractors later for John Deere

John Deere's 5,000,000th lawn tractor, from the X700 Ultimate range, recently rolled off the assembly line at the Horicon, Wisconsin factory in the United States.
Production of the company’s first lawn and garden tractor began at Horicon in 1963, when John Deere built 1,000 units of the 110 model. An original 110 can be seen at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC; a fully restored, working example of this pioneering lawn tractor is also on display in the foyer of John Deere’s UK headquarters at Langar in Nottinghamshire.
The millionth John Deere lawn tractor, a 318 model, was produced at Horicon in 1984. The second million was reached by an LX188 in 1992. The factory achieved the three million mark in 1998 with the LT133 lawn tractor, and the four millionth machine was produced in March 2003.