With farmers feeling the squeeze from low commodity prices and inflation, and now there’s a trade war that is looking like it is going to drive new equipment prices up even higher for the foreseeable ...

If you’ve been in the market for used equipment, you know it’s undergone a dramatic shift since 2023. Whether as a buyer or a seller, the prices of used equipment within the row crop sector have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Agricultural machinery sales dropped 35% to 45% in 2025 due to trade wars and tariffs, but used equipment surplus may benefit ...

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 ...

Fancy new technology usually is the star at trade shows. But at the Farm Progress Show, the largest outdoor agriculture event in the U.S., used tractors are the big attraction. Farmers at the Boone, ...

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 ...

Buying used farm equipment online is convenient and the vast majority of sales involving agricultural machinery and vehicles will be genuine. However, the trade does have a dark underbelly. While most ...

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