This week in interesting industry headlines: 

DuPont Weighing Agriculture Deals, Interim Chief Says [Wall Street Journal] 
"DuPont Co.’s interim chief executive said he is considering potential deals in the agriculture industry and scrutinizing the chemical company’s research spending in an effort to boost profits." Read more

There's even more equipment available for this week's featured auction on Thursday, October 29. In addition to a big selection of trucks, we've added Motor Scrapers, Backhoe Loaders, Compact Track Loaders, Wheel Loaders, and more.

Take a look at our late-model, low-hour equipment at great opening price points. Read inspection reports, match available machines against your needs, and place bids right away. These great buys are available now!

Cat 627F Motor Scraper
Item #658660, 17,708 Hours. Enclosed Cab, A/C, Heater, Cushion Hitch, Rear Push Block, 33.25R29 Tires. More details

Today IronPlanet^®, the leading online marketplace for buying and selling used heavy equipment and trucks, held an onsite auction in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Pennsylvania to great success! There were more than 15,000 participants in the Unreserved Public Auction, hosted onsite at Cleveland Brothers and held online at www.ironplanet.com. It was IronPlanet’s third major regional event on the Cat Auction Services Fall schedule.

Hosted by Cleveland Brothers with featured seller Milton Cat, today's auction showcased a large selection of late-model, low-hour equipment. The Northeastern regional event offered more than 300 top-quality pieces of equipment, including: Cranes, Articulated Trucks, Asphalt Equipment, Backhoe Loaders, Compact Track Loaders, Compactors, Crawler Tractors, Excavators, Motor Graders and much more. Find out more about the auction items.

The featured auction on Thursday, October 29 includes plenty of trucks -- late-model, low-hour equipment at great opening price points. Read inspection reports, match available machines against your needs, and place bids right away. These great buys are available now!

1998 Freightliner FLD120 T/A Conventional Day Cab
Item #660038, 252,186 Miles. Cummins M11-350E 350 Adv Horsepower, Eaton Fuller 10 Speed, Sliding 5th Wheel, Air Conditioning, Cruise Control, Power Mirrors, Heated Mirrors, Dual High Back Seats, Tilt and Telescopic Steering Wheel.
More details

This week in interesting industry headlines: 

New Food and Agriculture Fund S2G Ventures Launches With $125 Million [Wall Street Journal]
"Investors are placing increasing bets on two traditional industries confronted by changing consumer tastes: food and beverage businesses and agriculture." Read more

House approves bill to speed up mineral mining [The Hill]
"House lawmakers approved a bill Thursday to speed up the permitting process for mining resources deemed "strategic or critical." Read more

Robot builder designed for construction sites [Reuters]
"Zurich-based architects and roboticists have created the In-situ Fabricator, an autonomous construction robot capable of laying bricks into pre-programmed structures. Designers at the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Digital Fabrication laboratory believe a future generation of the robot could be used widely on building sites." Read more

PLEASANTON, Calif. –

Who:

IronPlanet^®, the leading online marketplace for buying and selling used heavy equipment and trucks, is holding its fall Northeastern Cat Auction Services unreserved public auction in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, PA, on October 27, 2015. Cleveland Brothers is hosting the event, which is IronPlanet’s third major regional event on the Cat Auction Services Fall schedule.

This auction will deliver a large selection of late-model, low-hour equipment. Host Cleveland Brothers will be joined by Milton CAT as a featured seller.

On Wednesday, October 21, Cat Auction Services' first-ever unreserved public auction marks a new milestone for the IronPlanet marketplace. Onsite in Edmonton, Alberta, as well as online, the auction is hosted by Finning and features over 200 low-hour, late-model items available to preview now. 

Some of the exciting items up for sale on Wednesday: 

2011 John Deere 772GP AWD Motor Grader
Lot #159, 5,001 Hours. Enclosed Cab, Air Conditioner, Heater, All Wheel Drive, Traction Control, 17.5R25 Tires, Push Block, 16' Moldboard, Craig Snow Wing Bracket. See more

2009 JLG 3246ES Electric Scissor Lift
Lot #109, 189 Hours. 31.8' Max Lift Height, 700 lb. Max Weight Capacity, Electric Operated, 36" Wide x 8' Long Platform. See more

Sue McGregor, Managing Director of Canada, IronPlanet, discusses steps to winterize your machines to save time and money on Page B7 of Equipment Journal here.

Thursday's featured auction includes over 1,100 late-model, low-hour equipment at great opening price points-- all available now! Read inspection reports, match available machines against your needs, and place bids ahead of auction day. All items are sold out of North America (U.S., Canada, and Mexico), so this is a good opportunity to save on transportation costs while still purchasing quality equipment!

This week's featured auction includes an exciting package from Alpha Oil & Gas, sold out of North Dakota (with a few pieces from Minnesota). The company builds and maintains pipelines in the Northern Plains region, and has 170 items in great condition for sale in Thursday's auction. With 21 excavators, 13 flatbed trucks, 10 pipelayers and more, it's a can't-miss sale. Items are all available now for you to read inspection reports and place advance bids. 

Some of the most interesting items from the sale, available to bid on now: 

2012 Tesmec TRS1075 Bucket Wheeled Trencher
Item #653408, 3,713 Hours. Ride-On, Enclosed Cab, Elevating Cab, Air Conditioner, Heater, Discharge Conveyor, 30" Track Shoes. See more

This week in interesting industry headlines: 

Economy in U.S. Expanded Modestly Since Mid-August, Fed Says [Bloomberg Business]

"The U.S. economy grew modestly with little inflation pressure from mid-August to early October as a strong dollar weighed on manufacturing and tourism, a Federal Reserve report showed." Read more

Oil fall means 'almost everything' for sale as deals accelerate [Sydney Morning Herald]

"More than $US200 billion ($277 billion) worth of oil and natural gas assets are for sale globally as companies come under renewed financial pressure from the prolonged commodity price rout, according to IHS Inc." Read more

Bats are worth $3.7bn to US agriculture [The Guardian]

"University of California, Davis researcher Katherine Ingram has been running a study for the past two years in an attempt to put a monetary number on what she calls the “ecosystem services” provided by bats. That includes not only pest control for a wide variety of crops, including corn, cotton, various nuts, and rice, but also pollination for some 300 fruit varieties." See more

PLEASANTON, Calif. –

Who: 

IronPlanet^®, the leading online marketplace for buying and selling used heavy equipment and trucks, is holding its first Cat Auction Services live unreserved public auction in Canada on October 21, 2015. The sale will be hosted by Finning, the world’s largest Cat^® dealer. This auction will deliver the best in late model, low hour equipment, and is the second of five Cat Auction Services onsite auctions being held this fall in North America. 

This week in interesting industry headlines: 

PLEASANTON, Calif. – 

IronPlanet, the leading online marketplace for buying and selling used heavy equipment and trucks, marked one year since the launch of its GovPlanet marketplace by holding the first two-day auction on GovPlanet.com at the end of September. Gross merchandise value (GMV) of the combined sale was $9.25 million, which drew more than 25,000 unique auction day attendees and nearly 1,000 unique bidders over the two days. All equipment on the first day of the sale, Tuesday, September 22, 2015, was from the U.S. Marine Corps, and the second day, Wednesday, September 23^, 2015, was GovPlanet’s second all-Humvee sale.

The sale was also a first as GovPlanet added the U.S. Marine Corps to its list of sellers. The U.S. Marine Corps is the latest seller to take advantage of IronPlanet’s dedicated government surplus marketplace, GovPlanet. IronPlanet launched GovPlanet in 2014 to address the specialized needs of federal, state and local entities and in November 2014 held its first auction of surplus rolling stock for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). Since that time, more than 12,000 items have sold on GovPlanet, including more than 2,000 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs), or Humvees, that have proven to be popular sellers.

This was GovPlanet’s second all-Humvee auction; the first was held at the end of June 2015. Combined, the two all-Humvee auctions alone have sold more than 520 vehicles with some prices reaching as high as $20,000 to $30,000. During the past year, IronPlanet worked with the DLA to allow Humvee buyers to acquire a Form SF97, the U.S. government-issued certificate that proves ownership and enables vehicle buyers to procure titles in states that allow it.

Based on the success of the DLA items selling on GovPlanet in the U.S., IronPlanet proposed selling rolling stock based in Europe to a broader audience of buyers closer to the equipment. On July 29, 2015, IronPlanet held its first auction of DLA items based in Europe to resounding success: all 108 lots sold to bidders from 115 countries, and 52% of people registered for the sale were new to IronPlanet and GovPlanet.

Sue McGregor, Managing Director of Canada, IronPlanet, discusses what to look for in a selling platform on Page 21 of Supply Post.  Read the article here.

Sue McGregor, Managing Director of Canada, IronPlanet, discusses which kind of marketplace to use for purchasing used heavy equipment on Page A20 of Equipment Journal here.  

PLEASANTON, Calif. – 

IronPlanet, the leading online marketplace for buying and selling used heavy equipment and trucks, announced today that it has been selected by the Zachry-Odebrecht Parkway Builders to help manage and sell surplus equipment related to the SH99 Grand Parkway Project in Houston, Texas, as it gets closer to completion.

This week in interesting industry headlines:

Use of Unmanned Aircraft System in agriculture continues to expand [Farm & Ranch Guide]

"These larger unmanned aircraft will be used in precision agriculture and some of the first things farmers will be willing to pay for is the ability to make yield predictions. In addition, Nowatzki predicts farmers will use large UAS to track insect and disease movements. Accurate elevation data, he feels, is also something growers will be willing to pay for." Read more

Exuberance and Disappointment at Shell's About-Face in the Arctic [NYTimes.com]

"The economies and cultures of Alaska and Washington have long been intertwined and dependent. Many Alaskan fishing fleets today are based in Seattle and pay their wages here; in decades past, gold miners disembarked from Puget Sound for the gold fields of Alaska and Canada. The result is akind of mutual orbit with each side circling the other, in mutual benefit or frustration. On Monday, the glaring differences were everywhere." Read more

Timing is important when disposing equipment at auction [American City & County]

"Tractor-loader-backhoes in the North American markets are following seasonal trends in auction and private retail valuations, according to a new EquipmentWatch Intelligence report. The valuations, say EquipmentWatch analysts, vary based on model age and month of sale." Read more

Volkswagen's Biggest Challenge Right Now: Fixing the Cars [Fox Business]

"It's believed that VW's engineers, under intense pressure to meet mileage and performance targets, chose to rig the software because they couldn't hit those targets while keeping the emissions below legal levels. Certain types of emission controls impede both performance and fuel economy. One of the challenges facing new VW CEO Matthias Mueller is that all of those cars must now be fixed." Read more