I grew up in a small, rural town in Ohio where farmland abounds. My family were not farmers, but I grew up with plenty of families who were farmers, and some of them still are. In high school, I would pass by at least a few fields during my mile commute to school. In those fields, were tractors. That tractor was usually a John Deere. When I got to school, I had some classmates that were wearing a John Deere T-shirt or hat.