One of my first story assignments as an agricultural journalist was covering a liquidation auction of repossessed farm machinery in Columbia, Missouri. It was late summer 1985, and the 1980s farm ...

20/20 vision is great. The calendar year 2020 — not so great. In fact, it’s been awful. Yet it’s been amazing to watch what’s been happening in the used farm equipment market. COVID-19 shut down live ...

If you know farming, you know Machinery Pete. For the (very) few not familiar, Machinery Pete ( MachineryPete.com) is the fastest growing and largest marketplace for used farm equipment, offering an ...

SPARTA — Greg Peterson, the used farm equipment guru known as "Machinery Pete," has a simple answer when asked about the meteoric rise in market values in recent years. There just hasn’t been a lot of ...

People are venturing out into a mostly normal world again as the COVID-19 pandemic eases. But the reverberations of the shutdown are still showing up—and in some relatively unexpected places. Just as ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. ― Greg Peterson has been charting auction prices before they were accessible on the World Wide Web, and he's never seen anything like this. Due to a surge in online auction ...

Used machinery experts say farmers better get used to it. With the ethanol industry boosting the price of cash corn to more than $3.50 per bushel recently, millions of extra corn acres are expected to ...

LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Sandhills Global market reports covering November data highlight a tough market for used truck dealers, a slight uptick in used agricultural equipment sales ...

Seven factors which influence the decision to sell or exchange used farm machinery are identified and a procedure to determine the more profitable alternative is presented. An example based upon the ...

Shane Reagan had one word to describe how he felt after spending $255,000 for a used Case IH quad-track tractor at a farm auction near Williams in north central Iowa: Broke. But he also felt pretty ...