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The average auction price on the previous six sold was $41,083.
Machinery Pete answers the question, when is the best time of year to have an auction?
As the dog days of summer came to an end, tractor prices started to fall.
Anyone out there know where it is?
What do I love most about compiling auction data on farm equipment for the past 25 years? The answer is easy: tomorrow.
Used equipment values have been on a rocket-ship ride during the past seven years.
Machinery Pete attends an Iowa auction—the first sunny and warm auction day in the past 20 events he’s attended.
After a five-plus year extended run of exceedingly strong used values, auction prices began to fall in late spring, specifically on one- to four-year-old used four-wheel drive tractors.
Winter is the perfect time to brush up on your skills and get ready for the next crop year with one or more of these trainings offered by the Farm Journal family.
He’ll appear on tomorrow’s AgriTalk radio program to discuss current auction trends and surprising machinery prices. Also, he will post regularly to his Machinery Pete blog on AgWeb.
When Machinery Pete read the recap email from the auctioneer, he couldn’t believe the prices he saw.
2010 Case IH 7120 combine with 153 hours sold.
Despite the struggling farm economy, equipment values are standing their ground.
In Tractor Tales with Machinery Pete, after her family was impacted first-hand by breast cancer, one high-schooler decided to raise awareness. She did so by refurbishing a 1940s tractor and painting it pink.
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, Tractor Tales is all about family. The tractor was purchased brand new and modified so that one man could continue to do what he loves—farm.
Ag companies accelerate crop protection discoveries with new technology.
Final results from the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour.
Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour final results.
Official results from the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour.
Official results from the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour.
China sells only 89,928 MT of 2009 and 2010 state-owned soybean reserves put up for auction.
Even with the ‘recipe,’ the corn and soybean markets must still get the ingredients to put in a low.
Forecasts call for non-threatening weather, but cooler-than-normal conditions aren’t what all of the crop needs.
Non-threatening weather is reducing crop concerns and giving funds no concern with actively selling corn and soybeans.
August beans posted a bearish reversal Tuesday and basis plunged, hinting that a top may be in the works for old-crop beans despite tight supplies.
Greeley, is the seat of Colorado’s Weld County, the third-largest U.S. agricultural region, yet its lawmakers want nothing to do with weed production
Forecasts offer hopes of cooler temps and decent rains over the 10-day window. The amount and coverage levels of the rains will be the key in the western Corn Belt.
Demand must tell traders when prices have dropped far enough since weather is seen as non-threatening for the bulk of pollination.
China’s second-quarter gross domestic product report came in as expected.