I’ll leave you with one last Machinery Pete thought to chew on hard. This extended dearth of new equipment sales the past 18 ...

It’s a question I’ve been asked for 30 years. Back in the early 2000s, pre-internet, we’d stand and watch a sharp, used tractor or combine sell for $200,000. We’d say, “Can these prices go any higher?

SPARTA, Ill. — 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 ...

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 ...

Greg "Machinery Pete" Peterson said auction sales of late model used large farm equipment have soared while prices have plummeted. He talked about the state of the industry at the Big Iron Farm Show.