Loaders and Lifts
Find out which used farm equipment sales made headlines as Pete’s Pick of the Week and get the latest auction market insights straight from from Machinery Pete, plus an upcoming auction with a big lot of used skid steers.
The farm equipment auction busy season is here and Greg “Machinery Pete” Peterson has a pair of machines that sold last week that show used machinery values are strong and farmers are buying pre-DEF, well-maintained equipment.
This week’s Machinery Pete “Pete’s Pick of the Week” is a nearly 40-year-old John Deere tractor beloved by farmers for decades now, and Pete gets you ready for an active week on the used farm equipment auction circuit.
A recent nationwide used equipment scam resulted in nearly a quarter million dollars being lost to online scammers for farm machinery that was never delivered to buyers in seven states. Find out how you can stay safe when buying equipment online.
The farm equipment auction world is seeing a wave of farmer interest in hay tools, loader tractors, lower-cost machines and specialty niche equipment, like sugar beet harvesters and hay bale steamers.
Now farm tractors, combines and sprayers can be configured so there is no impact on engine power for up to 36 hours when a DEF system malfunction occurs, and a farmer has up to 100 engine hours at 25% power reduction before a 50% reduction takes hold.
Low-hour, like-new tractors, combines and even skid steers are drawing solid bidding activity, and the guys preview fall auction season and offer their best advice to get your auction in front of the right buyers.
A used equipment market that was very buyer friendly of late is starting to swing back toward the dealer side of things, and used, late-model combines continue to draw strong farmer interest and dollars at auction.