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Greg Peterson

Greg Peterson, the founder behind the Machinery Pete brand, has built an extensive industry network connecting 950 regional auctioneers, 600 ag lenders, 2,000 implement dealers, and thousands of farmers across the U.S. and Canada. Since 1989, the Machinery Pete platform has compiled a database of over 500,000 auction prices on used farm and construction equipment, expanding in 2015 to launch a dealer listings site featuring analytics and marketing services.

As an individual commentator, Peterson serves as Farm Journal Media’s multimedia expert on used equipment values across print and broadcast. A sought-after speaker for farmer and investor audiences, he hosts Machinery Pete TV—a weekly 30-minute show launched on RFD-TV in November 2013. Peterson’s personal audience engagement includes over 200,000 Facebook followers and 60,000 YouTube subscribers.

Latest Stories
The current farm equipment market is all about availability.
What does everyone want? Tractors in good condition, with low hours, often 10 to 20 years old. Why? The price of new equipment just keeps going up every year.
The rebuilt/retrofit factor in the used planter market has been huge the past 18 to 24 months.
The rising prices of corn and soybeans had farmers in the buying mood big time in the last few months of the year.
So far here in 2018 John Deere 4430 tractor values are Up 9.3%. Here’s a look at the Avg. Auction Price on 4430’s going back over the past 8 years.
Here’s video showing three International tractors from this sale.
This pair of 1970 International 1026 front-wheel drive tractors sold on Feb. 25.
Search traffic for used livestock equipment on MachineryPete.com was very strong early in 2016.
In December 2015, user searches for balers on MachineryPete.com spiked 11%.
Much of life is timing—particularly when it comes to all things financial.