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September 3, 2011 – 3:15 pm
From Michigan Live.Com ENSLEY – Arlene Culver beamed as she surveyed the farmyard lined with 72 antique tractors, old engines and other rusted farm equipment collected by her late father, Sherwood “Red” Casterline. “My mother is the reason for this,” Culver said. “He always told her when he [...]
August 30, 2011 – 3:13 pm
BY RANDY DOCKENDORF @ Yankton.Net CORSICA — Lee Dodak knows what he likes, and he traveled 1,000 miles to bid on a 1910 Advanced-Rumely tractor. The Michigan man was part of Friday’s worldwide group of bidders — thanks to the Internet — who sought the coveted machinery. In the end, he and friend Joe Osterling [...]
August 27, 2011 – 5:35 pm
From Yahoo Finance Braden Janowski has never planted seeds or brought in a harvest. He doesn’t even own overalls. Yet when 430 acres of Michigan cornfields was auctioned last summer, it was Janowski, a brash, 33-year-old software executive, who made the winning bid. It was so high — $4 million, 25 percent above the next-highest [...]
August 20, 2011 – 5:33 pm
From The Cap Times There were 37 auctions listed in the “farm auction” section of the Wisconsin State Farmer weekly ag newspaper on April 22. Included were a number of community consignment sales, several lawn-and-garden type auctions, a few horse and tack sales, a dozen or so farm equipment auctions, a “repo” auction and 13 [...]
August 15, 2011 – 5:31 pm
West Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) – Too wet for field work, so more than a thousand farmers from the region took in an auction. At the Fairgrounds this afternoon, Steffes Auctioneers hosted a consignment sale that brought in bidders from across North America. Too wet for field work, so more than a thousand farmers from [...]
Online Auction Selling Tips By: Tom Landmesser National Sales Manager, Big Iron ST. EDWARD, Neb. – As needs and demands change, equipment fleets must also transform to keep with the times. Often, the challenge of selling used equipment is intimidating and can be expensive. However, in recent years, online equipment auctions have gained popularity as [...]
By Jean Caspers-Simmet From a great farm paper in Minnesota and Iowa FORT ATKINSON, Iowa —Shock is how Bob Humpal describes his feelings when he learned that he was to be inducted into the Iowa Auctioneers Association Hall of Fame earlier this year. They announce the award winners so that they know to sit up [...]
Springfield farmer one of many selling out BY NANCY SHARER, Review Correspondent Published In the Pennsylvania Daily Review The little calf glows in the afternoon light. Sunshine brushes her fuzzy, light brown coat as she stands on slender, knobby-kneed legs. She gazes at the world around her. With lashes as long as a movie star’s, [...]
If you are looking for great timely news from the auction industry, be sure to check out the Auction Central News Peter D. Gehres, new owner of Belhorn Auctions, cradles a choice Overbeck Pottery vase, which was exhibited at an American Art Pottery Association convention. Image courtesy of Belhorn Auctions. COLUMBUS, Ohio (ACNI) – Auctioneer [...]
April 18, 2011 – 11:35 am
Here is a video of an interview that was done with Harry Siemens of Siemens Says at AgDays in Brandon Manitoba back in January.