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About The John Deere 9500

Where harvesting equipment is concerned, few companies have made as great an impact and have as storied a history as John Deere. The legendary farm equipment manufacturer released its first combine harvester in the late 1920s with the 35-horsepower No. 2, and followed up a year later with the smaller No. 1. In the 1930s, Deere introduced its hillside harvesting technology for combines to enable growers to more effectively use their combines on inclines. In the mid-1940s, Deere offered its first self-propelled combine, the model 55, which also placed the cab at the center of the machine for the first time. Prior to selling its 500,000th self-propelled combine in 2010, Deere put the aforementioned features together in its entirely redesigned Maximizer combine series, which included the walker-based John Deere 9500 released in 1989.

John Deere 9500 Features

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1997 John Deere 9500 combine harvester

John Deere released the 9500 along with the similar but smaller 9400 and 9600 combines. Those models replaced the company’s previous 6620, 7720, and 8820 models and were designed for harvesting corn and beans, although the 9500 could be used to harvest additional crops with the appropriate implement in place. In addition to situating the 9500’s diesel engine at the machine’s rear, the combine located the cab at the 9500’s center front. The newly designed cab, meanwhile, was pressurized to combat dust inhalation.

In the early 1990s, Deere gave the 9500 (and its 9600 sibling) more horsepower with the introduction of its New Generation engines. In subsequent years, the manufacturer added automatic speed control for corn and row-crop attachments to the 9500 and introduced a 9500SH variant for side-hill harvesting operation. John Deere ended production of the 9500 in 1997, the same year Deere celebrated its 50th year of producing self-propelled combines, and released new, incrementally updated models (the 9410, 9510, and 9610) the following year.