John Deere workers plant their support in Habitat

Volunteers raise panels for six homes inside factories

By: Jennifer DeWitt|June 17, 2026

|8 min read

Workers at John Deere Harvester Works raise the wall panels on a Habitat Humanity Quad Cities' new home. The homebuild, repeated at several Midwest John Deere factories, was part of the company's Building Our Communities initiative. CREDIT JOHN DEERE

The same John Deere factories where workers build its signature combines, tractors and construction/forestry machines shifted gears earlier this month to build homes and futures for Habitat for Humanity families.

More than 1,200 workers across six Iowa and Illinois Deere facilities devoted part of their workday to constructing wall panels for new Habitat…

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