Unless you’ve visited a few farm shows and walked through both large exhibits and varied-industry-type displays, there might ...

“Hey Pete, if you were having an auction, what time of year would you choose?” My answer to that question has been the same for the past 20 years: early November through December. The Machinery Pete ...

I’ve been compiling auction price data since November 1989 and writing my Machinery Pete column since 1992. Yet in all that time, there’s a timely topic I have yet to cover: how the equipment ...

The slump in new farm machinery sales accelerated in 2025 as growers continued to endure economic pressure and high production expenses, experts say. In 2025, unit sales decreased about 22% for new ...

Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to visit Louisville for the 2026 National Farm Machinery Show. The four-day event at the Kentucky Exposition Center begins Wednesday, Feb. 11 through ...

The Wapakoneta Young and Adult Farmers and FFA Alumni groups will host their 35th annual machinery and tool sale on Saturday, April 4, at the Auglaize County Fairgrounds. The sale begins ...

Across the United States and the High Plains, the amount of farm equipment (balers, combines, cotton pickers and strippers and forage harvesters) on farms is shrinking. Since the 1997 Census of ...

This week's Open Mic guest is Viren Popli, President and CEO of Mahindra North America. The world's largest tractor manufacturer by volume has been growing its customer base between farmers, ranchers ...

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers is launching an online campaign effort to promote the need to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure and expand trade and support the agricultural economy. AEM ...

People are venturing out into a mostly normal world again as the COVID-19 pandemic eases. But the reverberations of the shutdown are still showing up—and in some relatively unexpected places. Just as ...

BISMARCK, N.D. -- Many states have passed specific laws for farmers who purchase machinery and later find that the machinery does not conform to the express warranties offered by the manufacturer. In ...