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 ...

Modern combine-harvesters upload reams of data directly back to their manufacturers. The combine harvester, a staple of farmers’ fields since the late 1800s, does much more these days than just vacuum ...

Learn strategies to stretch equipment dollars in 2026, including budget planning, shopping around and right-sizing machinery ...

Battery-powered hand tools now own the fix-it market. Yard equipment has its cell sights set on suburbia. Farm country, however, requires a much higher threshold of reliability. That isn’t slowing ...

Robots are taking over farms faster than anyone saw coming. The first fully autonomous farm equipment is becoming commercially available, which means machines will be able to completely take over a ...

Vending machines famously dispense junk food–candy, chips, soda, prepackaged baked goods. Why shouldn’t they be instead make healthy items accessible? That’s the thinking behind Peter-und-Paul-Hof’s ...

New fertilizer equipment emphasizes precision application, multi-product capabilities and operational efficiency. Notable ...

John Deere (NYSE:DE) unveiled new autonomous machines at CES 2025. The company said it expanded its technology across agriculture, construction, and commercial landscaping. The company's ...

In 2013, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo set aside $2 million for a marketing campaign known as Taste NY, as well as a $60 million tourism initiative called “I Love NY.” As part of the initiative, ...

Bhubaneswar: An increase in feminisation of farm operations in Odisha has prompted the agriculture department to introduce a standard operating procedure (SOP) for women-centric ergonomic testing of ...