SEE WHAT'S NEW IN USED

If you like the great outdoors and enjoy a thrilling adventure, then you will love a ride in the John Deere Gator XUV. Since its inception, the John Deere Gator has experienced a massive makeover that has won over the hearts of farmers and adventure enthusiasts.

In 2007 the Gator XUV 4×4 was introduced as a more extreme Gator. This John Deere Gator is not only great for work around the farm, but it can now perform as a fun crossover.

On the go and have your smart phone or tablet?  John Deere MachineFinder is now your one-stop source for finding used equipment made by John Deere and other manufacturers through your mobile device as well!

Launching today, John Deere MachineFinder Mobile enables John Deere Ag and Turf Dealers, and Construction and Forestry Dealers in North America visibility for their public used equipment listings readily and easily available for customers’ viewing on mobile devices.

Hello all of you John Deere fans out there!  We come to you today with great news for those who want to decorate your computer with John Deere Green! MachineFinder is going to allow users to download desktop wallpapers and images for your computer for FREE!  Based on search engine data, John Deere has decided to make desktop wallpapers of the 10 most popular models searched.

MachineFinder aims to bring you enterprise-wide equipment listings, and toward that end, it has now expanded to include used construction and forestry machines from our John Deere Construction & Forestry ( C&F ) dealers. This transition will result in no change or disruption to your normal dealings on MachineFinder.com.

The change took place December 1st, when MachineFinder replaced UsedConnection as the construction and forestry web portal.

Buyers of construction and forestry equipment will enjoy several enhancements as a result of the move, including a user-friendly site, multi-lingual formats, greater public traffic, mapping technologies, quicker inventory searches, thumbnail pictures for dealer inventories, ability to track specific dealer listings, and construction appeal and graphics.

We’re excited to be launching a series of farming and agricultural news widgets for site owners in the industry to place on their respective websites.

Our news widgets can be used as tools for providing content that is relevant to your website audience. The copy-and-paste code makes it easy to add our widgets to a side navigation bar or directly on a single web page.

Right now we’ve created four different templates but are looking to create more as we receive feedback from our community. Please feel free to send your thoughts and suggestions via the comments below. Thank you and wishing you the best success with your business!

One of the biggest challenges when shopping for equipment online is the fact that the equipment you’re searching for could be located all over the country. Depending on what you’re looking for, the perfect machine to meet your needs could be found several states away. The question then becomes, “How do I get it here?” Knowing where to even begin can be quite a challenge.

In January, with the launch of our new website, we set out to answer that question for our customers.

Ladies and gentlemen, John Deere is now social! You’ve made us a part of your work and lives for the past 172 years, and now we’re making you a part of ours by connecting with you online:

Twitter, FriendFeed, and Plurk

On Twitter, you can follow us @MachineFinder. We’re answering your questions in 140 characters or less, and bringing you useful links and updates/news relating to agriculture. We participate in #agchat every Tuesday from 8-10pm EDT with the rest of the crowd on great agricultural and farming topics.

Well, we just passed the 6 week mark for the launch of the new MachineFinder.com website! After a year in development, it’s been nice to sit back and watch our customers interact with our new site. While the vast majority of the feedback we’ve gotten has been positive, we have certainly heard from customers with great ideas and suggestions for our site.

Well, in just a few weeks time, we’ve listened to your feedback and have implemented a few changes already!

Improved Pagination

The previous version of MachineFinder allowed only one way to view listings. That was basically a spreadsheet view. Now, we have three different views: Standard, Gallery, and Map view.

The map view has some very cool features integrated into it!

First, we plot the first 250 machines matching your search on the map. More than 250 pinpoints on the map clutter things up too much, so we limit things to 250 for that view only. This lets you look at where 250 machines are across the country all at once. Other views and sites limit you to 10, 25, 50, etc. This lets you plot the whole set right away.

We want to take a moment and give a warm, special thanks to all the customers who have written in during our first two weeks with the new site operational. Customer feedback is essential to our bringing you the best possible website.

First we should address our website’s performance during the early going. When we launched last week, you might have noticed the site was dragging at times, and fast the next. We have resolved most of these issues and we apologize for any problems you may have had during that time. We are still experiencing some rare slowdowns, but for the most part the site is good and we’re still working to optimize the site for best possible speed.