John Deere Commons

This is a new exhibit at the John Deere Pavilion. Very impressive!!

Can sculpture facts

Height: 17-foot-3
Length: 80 feet
Weight: 170 tons
Number of cans of food: Approximately 320,000
Additional bags of rice and pasta: Approximately 10,000

Another fun fact: In order to replicate the color scheme of an actual S690 combine, the sculpture's designers picked what type of food to use for each part of the sculpture based on the color of its can. For example, the black wheels were cans of black bean chili while the cans making up the green body were mostly spinach.

One final fun fact: The cans of food in the sculpture could feed about 150 families for a year and after the sculpture is disassembled, they will be distributed through the River Bend food bank to nearly 1,100 families in the Quad-Cities area.