Machinery Pete spotlights pair of upcoming farm auctions, June 21 in Lime Springs, IA and June 26 in Merrill, IA featuring extremely nice low hour equipment line ups. Pete also recalls June Auction memories of one of the most memorable sales he's ever covered, a June 28, 2014 collector auction in Bedford, IA featuring amazing vintage Allis Chalmers and John Deere tractors. Pete also has monthly update chat with Jack Lyon of Alex Lyon & Son Auction in Bridgeport, NY on latest in the heavy equ...
Jun 09, 2025•31 min•Ep. 70
Machinery Pete conversation with Ken Girard with Girard Auction & Land Brokers of Wakonda, SD about how he has built the auction company his late father Marv Girard started 55 Years ago in 1970 into a worldwide leading auction firm for Farm Toys, Pedal Tractors and Farm Memorabilia. Pete and Ken highlight the upcoming Jay Eudy Collector Estate Auction coming up Saturday, May 3 in Wakonda, SD featuring 100 Pedal Tractors and 200+ Farm Toys. Fascinating story about Jay Eudy and his connection ...
Apr 25, 2025•42 min•Ep. 69
Machinery Pete talks through update on current used farm equipment market with lot of eye opening fresh examples from the auction front. Early ’25 has provided a very surprising market adjustment. Pete also gets monthly update from Jack Lyon with Alex Lyon & Son Auctions, largest family owned auction company in the world, on very latest in the used construction equipment market
Apr 09, 2025•35 min•Ep. 68
With the 2025 Major League Baseball season kicking off this week Machinery Pete shares the very timely tale from 70+ years ago of a young farm boy from Ney, OH who went on to become a Major League Baseball star, winning 20 Games as a pitcher for the 1951 St. Louis Browns who lost 102 games that year. After his baseball career Garver returned to Ney, OH and lived a quiet yet very involved life in his hometown. Story told by Dean Jackson who became a lifelong friend of Garver Greg.
Mar 27, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 67
Machinery Pete heads to Cadiz, KY to talk with Micheal Oliver of Wlidcat Chevrolet. Micheal is a former John Deere dealer that transferred over to the automobile industry. If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to the Machinery Pete Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts. It helps others find the show.
Mar 21, 2025•1 hr•Ep. 66
Machinery Pete provides his take on the used equipment market at the end of 2024 and into early 2025 to open this episode. He then welcomes in feature guests Alex and Gina Kerr with Kerr Equipment/Kerr Auction of Mt. Sterling, IL. The Kerrs’ 12 year old daughter Kay Kerr joins the conversation. Alex and Gina started Kerr Auction mid ‘24 and have already grown it exponentially to a three-state footprint with the original site in Mt. Sterling, IL as well as Alma Center, WI and Torrington, WY. Kerr...
Jan 16, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 65
Machinery Pete talks about the power of listening and how it helped him both on a personal development level and also as a business building tool over the past 34 years. Pete’s podcast guest, Rob Wierenga, partner with Neeralta Mfg. of Alberta, Canada also touches on how important listening to their farmer customers has been a vital component in building out the state of the art line of grain bagging/extracting equipment they provide, including grain bag loaders and grain bag extractors. Neeralt...
Sep 10, 2024•52 min•Ep. 64
Machinery Pete talks with Jake Bryce, Co-Founder of Machinery Scope ( www.MachineryScope.com ) in Alexandria, MN about the new partnership between Machinery Pete and Machinery Scope and also about Machinery Scope’s growth over the past 11 years since founding in 2013. Family owned business. Bryce brings his deep farming roots along with extensive experience on the farm equipment dealer side to bear in creating needed extended warranty options via Machinery Scope for dealers and farmers. Pete and...
May 24, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 63
Machinery Pete chats with Jason Ingermanson of Solomon, KS whose beautiful line of farm equipment, including a ’22 John Deere X9 1100 combine with only 107 sep. hours, is selling on March 20, 2024 online auction by www.PurpleWave.com . Beyond the auction, we learn of the amazing growing restaurant biz Ingermanson has built since 2011, with 100 locations in 15 states with 3 strong growing brands. We also learn about how Ingermanson is giving back in a HUGE way with a program in cooperation with K...
Mar 11, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 62
Machinery Pete chats with Rodney Miller, host of the well-loved TV show “Small Town Big Deal” on RFD-TV and 300 other TV stations across the country. Rodney has deep farming and farm equipment roots, being from Benton, IL where he still has a farming operation. He was also a force behind the growth of Montana Tractors from $3M in annual revenue to $80M+ back in the day, before moving on to CEO position with McCormick. Rodney is a huge IHC tractor and equipment collector and shares many wonderful...
Feb 12, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 61
Machinery Pete talks fast-moving changes in the auction industry with recent notable consolidations and rapid technological advances. Pete chats with Aaron McKee, Founder/CEO of Purplewave.com, a long time leader in the online only auction space, about their big news last month (Oct. ’23) of a new partnership with Copart, Inc., a worldwide leader in the online auto auction space. [:35] - Machinery Pete’s talks consolidation [11:06] - Interview with Aaron McKee begins [11:45] - Purple Wave and Co...
Nov 17, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 60
Machinery Pete catches up with Kurt Aumann, owner of Aumann Vintage Power in Nokomis, IL. Kurt has been one of the foremost auctioneers in the vintage tractor, farm memorabilia, pedal tractors, toy tractors and farm signs space for decades. Kurt and Pete talk about Aumann Vintage Power 5-Day Annual Fall Auction Oct. 22-26 plus the 14 collector auctions they have coming up Oct. 27 – Dec. 3, 2023. [:40] - Machinery Pete’s intro, latest market update [5:48] - Interview with Kurt Aumann begins [10:0...
Oct 20, 2023•54 min•Ep. 59
Machinery Pete talks about the heavy construction equipment market with Andrew and Mike LeMaster with Black Star, an emerging company with a growing footprint across the U.S. helping folks sell, find and appraise all types of heavy construction equipment. The company aims for a more personal touch in the buying/selling process and utilizes innovative new means to get the word out on their current $27M of heavy equipment listings for sale. www.blackstaraca.com [:40] - Machinery Pete’s intro, sett...
Jul 28, 2023•46 min•Ep. 58
Antique tractors aren’t the only thing being restored on the farm today. Machinery Pete talks with Jeremiah Fairbanks, General Manager of Repair & Renovation with Morton Buildings about the company’s storied 120-year history dating back to 1903, how it transitioned a few years to a 100% employee-owned company and specifically about the company’s strong and growing focus on the Repair & Renovation aspect of its business. [:40] - Machinery Pete’s intro, equipment market update [4:25] - How...
Jun 02, 2023•50 min•Ep. 57
With March Madness coming to a head with the NCAA Final Four this week, Machinery Pete talks with Jess Settles – farmer from Winfield, IA and Iowa Hawkeye basketball legend, also TV college basketball analyst on ESPN, Big Ten Network and Fox Sports. Settles talks about growing up on the farm in Winfield, IA, his family’s deep farming roots, his basketball journey that carried him to the University of Iowa and star status in the mid 1990’s. After his playing days ended, Settles transitioned to TV...
Mar 29, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 56
Machinery Pete looks back over his 33+ year career and pulls together his best tips and advice to young farmers. Pete also talks with Zach Hiner, Jim Huff and John Probasco with the new auction firm Merit Auctions of Fort Madison, IA. Hiner, Huff and Probasco have over 100 years experience in the auction biz. They already have 10 auctions on the books, including a huge Feb. 28, 2023 online sale for Ag Pro, a large John Deere dealer in Ohio, Georgia and the southeast U.S. [:40] - Machinery Pete’s...
Feb 21, 2023•2 hr 26 min•Ep. 55
The story of North Prairie Butchery in Faulkton, SD, the dream project coming into reality of Troy Hadrick, a 5th generation cattle rancher in northeast South Dakota. Hadrick recently received a $2.2M grant from the Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program to build a 25/day head beef/pork/bison processing facility in Faulkton, SD to help expand our country’s pinched meat and poultry processing capacity and increase diversity in our nation’s food supply chain. Momentum is building quickly fo...
Nov 18, 2022•39 min•Ep. 54
Machinery Pete visits with Gary and Julie Peterson in their farm shop in Beresford, SD in advance of their upcoming, highly-anticipated John Deere collector tractor auction November 26, 2022 in Lennox, SD by Westra Auction Land & Realty featuring the Peterson’s (6) rare open station 40 and 50 Series John Deere tractors. Gary and Julie share the story of their farming career and talk about how their tractor collecting got started, what drove it and how they are feeling as sale day approaches....
Nov 04, 2022•42 min•Ep. 53
Machinery Pete conversation with Devin Marcin, Operations Mgr. with Quality Drills in Windsor, Colorado. Devin is known as “TheAirSeederChick” on Instagram. Marcin tells of her journey from growing up in the non-ag world of suburban Denver, CO into the hands dirty world of customizing and optimizing farmer’s used John Deere air seeders and planters throughout the U.S., Canada, even down under to Australia with Quality Drills. ( www.qualitydrills.com ) [:34] - Machinery Pete’s intro [7:08] - Conv...
Sep 22, 2022•48 min•Ep. 52
Machinery Pete has been asked a growing number of times throughout 2022, “Pete, when will the other shoe drop with used equipment values and how far will they fall?” Pete tackles this question head-on diving deep into multiple sources of market data and relevant anecdotal stories and comes out with an answer that will surprise many if not most in the ag space. [1:11] - Machinery Pete’s intro - “When will the next shoe drop?” [3:55] - Iowa farmers sell Peterbilts for more than what they paid new ...
Sep 06, 2022•51 min•Ep. 51
Machinery Pete talks with guests Mark Stock of BigIron.com and Dan Sullivan with Sullivan Auctioneers about the mega deal announced this week that saw BigIron acquire Sullivan Auctioneers. The two dominant online auction companies in the farm machinery/land space combine forces looking to better serve their sellers with an even greater reach. [:23] - Machinery Pete’s intro - celebrating anniversaries and the BigIron/Sullivan deal [4:09] - Conversation with Mark Stock and Dan Sullivan begins [5:1...
Aug 04, 2022•53 min•Ep. 50
Gary Perkins of Green City, MO is selling (6) IHC/Farmall Tractors on July 19 Machinery Pete Monthly Online Auction, including (5) more rare “2+2” models, one of which is the very 1st IHC 6788 ever made, a 1981 model with only 2,657 actual hours on it. Pete interviews Gary about his amazing 6788 and also his IHC 6588, 3788, pair of 6388’s and his 1955 Farmall 300, all selling on the July 19 Machinery Pete Monthly Online Auction. [:38] - Preview of 7/19 auction, interview tease [4:00] - Partnersh...
Jul 12, 2022•45 min•Ep. 49
Machinery Pete talks Massey Ferguson History, as in the 175 Year Anniversary dating back to 1847. Special guests from Massey Ferguson join Pete, Darren Parker, VP of Massey Ferguson North America, and Adam Sills, Marketing Product Specialist, Tractors. A cool opportunity is discussed for proud Massey Ferguson tractor owners to potentially have their prize Massey displayed at the 2022 Farm Progress Show in Boone, IA at the Massey Ferguson exhibit. [1:50] - Market update - recent auction prices [6...
Jul 06, 2022•38 min•Ep. 48
Machinery Pete talks with Bernie Poore, retired John Deere Engineer, about his 1982 John Deere 4640 tractor with only 1,857 hours selling on June 21st Machinery Pete Monthly Online Auction and his 2005 Chevrolet 3500 Silverado dually 4x4 crew cab with only 55,906 miles also selling on the June 21 online auction. Bernie and Pete talk about Poore’s 41-year engineering career with John Deere, which began in 1965 working on 4020 tractors up through the 8000/9000 Series tractors, in addition to tales...
Jun 13, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 47
Machinery Pete’s conversation with Joel Everitt of the legendary Everitt auction/farm equipment family of Strawberry Point, IA. Joel’s grandfather started out in the 1950’s and was followed into biz by Joel’s father Jerry. Pete and Joel talk about the amazingly HOT current used farm equipment market and all the changes to the auction biz over the years, including rapid change since the pandemic hit in 2020. [:43] - Used equipment market update for March/April [11:59] - Interview with Joel Everit...
Apr 27, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 46
Machinery Pete highlights recent strong auction sale prices from the northeastern U.S. and stays with the northeastern ag focus for a conversation with guest Neil Messick, 3rd generation farm equipment dealer with Messick’s Farm Equipment, a 5-location Case IH / New Holland / Kubota dealer in southeast Pennsylvania. Neil is the driving force behind Messick’s huge Youtube audience with over 106,000 subscribers and over 800 videos posted on a wonderful array of topics that result in highly engagin...
Apr 09, 2022•47 min•Ep. 45
Machinery Pete talks with farmer Darcy Goossen from Ferintosh, Alberta, Canada, inventor of the TireGrabber: the award-winning and head-turning, easy, new, safe way to change large ag tires. [:34] - Machinery Pete previews his upcoming farm show appearances [3:51] - Equipment market update [9:10] - Introduction to interview with Darcy Goosen. [11:10] - Interview begins, first TireGrabber sale, how Darcy got the idea [15:52] - Simple design; positive customer reviews [25:22] - Darcy’s family hist...
Feb 11, 2022•44 min•Ep. 44
Machinery Pete has a conversation with Dustin Bollig, VP Sales/Marketing Dir. with Dragotec USA, the North American distributor of Drago corn heads. Bollig relays the tale of how his family brought the Italian made corn head, which dates back to 1954, over to the U.S. and their Fenton, IA farm/factory in 2001 and the explosive growth the company has been seeing and reasons behind the growth. [:31] - Machinery Pete’s latest on the used equipment market [7:52] - Interview with Dustin begins [9:20]...
Jan 18, 2022•50 min•Ep. 43
Pete gives update on the red-hot farm equipment market and then welcomes guest John Phipps, former host of US Farm Report TV show and current eastern Illinois farmer and columnist/contributor to Farm Journal, Top Producer, AgWeb.com, to the podcast for a fun wide-ranging conversation including what to do about China, the supply chain issue, the issue of small rural farming communities pulling apart and what can be done, and a look into John’s Engineering roots and early days as a Nuclear Energy ...
Dec 17, 2021•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 42
Machinery Pete stops in Dana, IN to interview Erin Holbert on the family farm she returned to a couple of years ago. From the cab of their John Deere 8420 tractor back in October 2019 Holbert created her own online clothing store, “Heart of the Midwest”, which has grown rapidly. Holbert proceeded in short order to build massive social media and Youtube followings, now with nearly 60,000 Youtube subscribers. Impressive American entrepreneurial spirit at work in the heartland. [:33] - Preview of c...
Dec 03, 2021•37 min•Ep. 41
