Thumbing through the latest machinery auction price listings has Machinery Pete thinking hay equipment this week. He's seeing some intriguing numbers for machinery like bale processors. See a few of them in this week's column.

7/02/2009, 1:01 PM CDT

Machinery Pete takes a look this week at the total number of tractor listings he's got on his website, and one thing has surprised me: The percent of total tractor sales at auction that are Deere machines. See how the numbers shake out and how other manufacturers compare.

6/25/2009, 12:59 AM CDT

Machinery Pete is headed to an auction near Owatonna, Minnesota, this morning, which includes three combines. "Featured on today's auction are three 2008 model combines - a pair of Case IH 8010s with around 300 engine hours and a NH CR9060 with about 950 engine hours," says Pete. He'll have a film crew on location to shoot footage of the auction today and will post the results later today so stay tuned.

6/18/2009, 9:30 AM CDT

I've been approached for help with current equipment values from both sides, from the little guy fighting the big insurance company, and also from an insurance company's lawyer fighting to prove the little guy's valuations were too high. What's needed in both these cases are cold, hard, dispassionate facts. What is that piece of used equipment worth?

6/11/2009, 12:15 AM CDT

For the last 3 years, the trend lines for tractor sales all followed the same basic pattern. So far, for 2009, that's been true, with one major exception: The line looks the same, only it's a ways lower on the chart.

6/11/2009, 11:10 AM CDT

"How's the used combine market? My answer: down, but up. Let me explain," says Machinery Pete. Learn more about the ups and downs of the used combine market in this week's column.

6/04/2009, 11:30 AM CDT

Machinery Pete has added a new feature to his Web site that puts more auction information at your fingertips than ever before. Check it out in this week's column.

5/28/2009, 2:30 PM CDT

Follow along with Machinery Pete and check out the prices fetched at the latest auction of the week, this time in southeastern Minnesota.

5/21/2009, 10:26 AM CDT

How important is resale value to you in an implement or piece of machinery you're looking at buying? See how 130- to 145-horsepower tractors have held their resale value over the last decade and weigh in with your opinion in this week's Machinery Pete slideshow and poll.

5/11/2009, 2:02 PM CDT

Beau Romsey was looking for a new way to record data taken from his harvest. What he found in the Digi-Star Grain Tracking system is the ability to easily download information form the harvest from his cab to his computer through a USB flash drive.

5/05/2009, 11:00 AM CDT