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Take a Made in America Iowa Factory Tour
There are quite a few interesting Iowa factory tours! While John Deere dominates the scene with tours offered at multiple manufacturing facilities, you can also see how cabinetry, furniture, and motorhomes are produced. And if you’re really into John Deere, check out their plant tours in Illinois too.
Iowa Factories That Offer Tours
Kendrick Forest Products | Edgewood, IA
Your tour begins at Kendrick Forest Products, Iowa’s largest sawmill, and then continues into the cabinet shop where you’ll see how cabinets are made for homes. You’ll also get a look at Kendrick Home where they print designs on wood. You’ll see how everything is built and shipped on this 5 in 1 family-operated business tour.
Kinze Manufacturing | Williamsburg, IA
Kinze Manufacturing produces planters, grain carts, and tillage equipment. Group factory tours are available by request.
RVP~1875 | Jefferson, IA
Take a tour or even a class at RVP~1875 where they still make furniture using tools, techniques, and finishes from the 1800s. The historically accurate furniture shop features an 1860s foot-powered lathe, an 1870s hand-crank ripsaw, and over 650 different hand planes.
Winnebago | Forest City, IA
Choose the Class A & Class C motorhomes tour in Forest City, or take a ride out to see where the camper vans are built in Lake Mills. The walking tours are approximately 2 hours long and reservations are recommended.
John Deere Factory Tours in Iowa
John Deere Davenport Works | Davenport, IA
John Deere Davenport Works manufactures 4WD loaders, motor graders, articulated dump trucks, skidders, and wheeled feller bunchers. The plant offers factory riding tours, Gold Key tours, and CBD customer tours.
John Deere Des Moines Works | Ankeny, IA
John Deere Des Moines Works manufactures sprayers, cotton pickers, cotton strippers, and grain and tillage tools. The plant offers public riding tours, gold key tours, and specialty market tours. It also has a gift shop featuring John Deere clothes, toys, and accessories.
John Deere Ottumwa Works | Ottumwa, IA
John Deere Ottumwa Works manufactures round balers, large square balers, small square balers, mower-conditioners, and self-propelled windrowers. The plant is currently offering Gold Key customer tours that last 2-3 hours.
John Deere Tractor Cab Assembly Operations | Waterloo, IA
John Deere Tractor Cab Assembly Operations is home to the final assembly of 7, 8 and 9 Series tractors. The tours are a one and a half hour riding tour by reservation and based on availability. Be sure to check out the gift shop stocked with John Deere clothes, toys, and accessories.
John Deere Tractor & Engine Museum | Waterloo, IA
Explore the collection of Deere equipment at the site of the very first Deere tractor factory, see rare artifacts, learn the history of John Deere from a simple steel plow to today’s modern working machines, and take part in interactive exhibits.
More Tours in Iowa
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