Built in 1977 in Havre, Montana, Big Bud is a 747 farm tractor standing 14 feet tall and 27 feet long. It weighs over 100,000 pounds and has a 1,100 horsepower engine. Throughout the 1980s and 90s ...

The John Deere Waterloo plant, where the company’s largest tractors are manufactured, currently has 4,700 employees with about 2,700 working production and maintenance jobs, according to the ...