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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.

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We now have the hottest used farm equipment market I’ve ever seen, and a Nov. 6 auction in Maryland is the hottest auction I’ve seen in my 32 years of tracking prices.
This tractor reached a new high record price--surpassing the auction prices of the past 9 years.
As I look to the future of the farm equipment market, I find myself looking back to draw on lessons I’ve learned in the past decades.
This fall and winter, I was frequently asked, “Pete, when is the other shoe going to drop?” This is a good question, as the used farm equipment market was on fire.
This 2005 John Deere 7420 with 2619 hours and new 741 loader from Nebraska was listed For Sale By Owner last week on MachineryPete.com
This 1979 John Deere 4440 with 4533 hours and 1981 John Deere 8440 with 5625 hours sold for strong prices on a 1/28/22 farm auction
I’m here to report used values have actually continued to RISE.
Now the question is: “Machinery Pete, these prices can’t last, can they? Prices and values have to fall, right?”
This tractor is up for sale on March 19.