JOHN Deere has manufactured its five-millionth lawn tractor.

Made at John Deere's Horicon, Wisconsin, factory in the US, the lawn tractor, or ride-on mower, was a model from the company's Select X700 series.

The Horicon factory has a long history of John Deere production. In 1963, John Deere's first lawn and garden tractors began rolling off the production line at Horicon and in the same year, 1000 units were produced.

The first ride-ons were labelled 110 Lawn Tractors and one of the original 110 models now resides at the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.

In May 1984, the Horicon works reached the one-million mark with a 318 lawn and garden tractor.

The two-million production mark was surpassed in 1992 with the production of an LX188 ride-on.

In 1998 the factory reached the three-million mark with an LT133 lawn tractor and in March 2003 the four-millionth tractor rolled off the line.