Machinery - General
Here are five big lessons of the current used machinery market.
Carl Lucas’ unlikely survival after falling into the steel grip of a PTO shaft is a chilling account of farm machinery danger: “Look at me and learn. Look at my missing arm and remember.”
Despite precision agriculture getting its start decades ago, the majority farmers aren’t fully using their farm data today. Just as technology has transformed agriculture, harvesting data could do the same.
How hot is the market for good condition used tractors? Travel back with me to a July 8, 2021, farm retirement auction for Leon and Susan Hoffman in southwest Minnesota for your answer.
Kansas State University student Blake Chance had a problem on the farm. After taking an entrepreneurship class his freshman year, he created a solution; one that turned him into an entrepreneur at a young age.
When a historical tractor, lost under seven coats of paint, quietly hit the auction floor, Dan Magness jumped on an opportunity and painstakingly resurrected a piece of Americana.
Filmed on his farm outside of Nashville, Fendt has partnered with Luke Bryan for a 25-episode YouTube series highlighting Bryan’s use of a Fendt 724 Vario on his land.
U.S. President Joe Biden wants the Federal Trade Commission to limit the ability of farm equipment manufacturers to restrict tractor owners from using independent repair shops or complete some repairs on their own.
After more than a decade of legislative proposals, the Biden Administration is preparing plans to allow equipment owners to have the right to repair their own equipment. AEM and John Deere responded to the planned order.
Machinery Pete Auctions will host monthly online, timed, no reserve, no buyer’s fee auctions, offering a new alternative for selling used farm equipment.