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VIDEO: The story’s the thing: Machinery Pete on farm auctions

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Published: May 5, 2023

After speaking with Greg Peterson, aka ‘Machinery Pete,’ you may walk away with the sense that you’d just been talking with the Garrison Keillor (of past Prairie Home Companion fame) of farm machinery. The two men have something in common: both are Minnesotans and know the power of story-telling to make a connection.

In this series of four videos recorded at Manitoba Ag Days earlier this year, Peterson shares some of his stories and observations spanning more than three decades of covering farm auction circuit and what’s next for ‘Machinery Pete.’

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Greg Berg

Greg Berg

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Greg Berg was born and raised in the potash capital of the world of Esterhazy, Saskatchewan. Greg helped out on the family homestead farm near Stockholm, Sask., for a number of years in his youth. Greg graduated from the Creative Communications program at Red River College in 2011 and joined Glacier FarmMedia in 2014. He specializes in video production and is a songwriter in his spare time.

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