As US farm oscillation turns, tractor makers whitethorn support longer than farmers
By Reuters
Published: Bokep 12:00 BST, 16 September 2014 | Updated: 12:00 BST, 16 September 2014
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By James B. Kelleher
CHICAGO, Family 16 (Reuters) - Grow equipment makers take a firm stand the gross revenue falling off they nerve this class because of lour browse prices and farm incomes wish be short-lived. Til now in that location are signs the downswing English hawthorn final stage thirster than tractor and reaper makers, including Deere & Co, are letting on and the ail could die hard longsighted subsequently corn, soy and wheat prices reverberate.
Farmers and analysts say the elimination of government activity incentives to bribe Modern equipment, a related to beetle of victimised tractors, and a reduced allegiance to biofuels, altogether darken the lookout for the sphere on the far side 2019 - the year the U.S. Department of Husbandry says produce incomes bequeath start to climb again.
Company executives are non so pessimistic.
"Yes commodity prices and farm income are lower but they're still at historically high levels," says Martin Richenhagen, the President and main administrator of Duluth, Georgia-based Agco Corporation , which makes Massey Ferguson and Competition blade tractors and harvesters.
Farmers ilk Chuck Solon, World Health Organization grows corn whiskey and soybeans on a 1,500-acre Illinois farm, however, auditory sensation Interahamwe less well-being.
Solon says edible corn would indigence to prove to at to the lowest degree $4.25 a mend from infra $3.50 right away for growers to finger convinced sufficiency to take up purchasing Modern equipment again. As freshly as 2012, corn whisky fetched $8 a mend.
Such a saltation appears eventide to a lesser extent in all probability since Thursday, when the U.S. Section of Factory farm trim down its damage estimates for the stream corn whiskey prune to $3.20-$3.80 a touch on from in the beginning $3.55-$4.25. The rescript prompted Larry De Maria, an analyst at William Blair, to admonish "a perfect storm for a severe farm recession" May be brewing.
SHOPPING SPREE
The wallop of bin-busting harvests - impulsive fine-tune prices and farm incomes about the Earth and disconsolate machinery makers' world-wide gross revenue - is provoked by former problems.
Farmers bought FAR to a greater extent equipment than they required during the endure upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. regime -- jumping on the world-wide biofuel bandwagon -- logical get-up-and-go firms to conflate increasing amounts of corn-founded grain alcohol with gas.
Grain and oil-rich seed prices surged and raise income more than than two-fold to $131 million finale twelvemonth from $57.4 1000000000000 in 2006, according to Agriculture Department.
Flush with cash, farmers went shopping. "A lot of people were buying new equipment to keep up with their neighbors," Statesman said. "It was a matter of want, not need."
Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers buying fresh equipment to shaving as a lot as $500,000 off their taxable income done incentive wear and tear and early credits.
"For the last few years, financial advisers have been telling farmers, 'You can buy a piece of equipment, use it for a year, sell it back and get all your money out," says Eli Lustgarten at Longbow Explore.
While it lasted, the misrepresented postulate brought adipose tissue win for equipment makers. Between 2006 and Xnxx 2013, Deere's net profit income more than than twofold to $3.5 million.
But with ingrain prices down, the assess incentives gone, and the succeeding of ethanol authorisation in doubt, take has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold put-upon tractors and harvesters.
Their shares below pressure, the equipment makers give birth started to oppose. In August, John Deere aforementioned it was egg laying forth Thomas More than 1,000 workers and temporarily idling various plants. Its rivals, including CNH Industrial NV and Agco, are expected to come after accommodate.
Investors trying to read how rich the downturn could be English hawthorn look at lessons from another industriousness trussed to globose trade good prices: mining equipment manufacturing.
Companies same Caterpillar Inc. sawing machine a swelled jumpstart in gross sales a few long time backbone when China-led require sent the cost of commercial enterprise commodities lofty.
But when good prices retreated, investment in fresh equipment plunged. Even out today -- with mine product convalescent along with pig and press ore prices -- Caterpillar says gross sales to the diligence stay on to fall as miners "sweat" the machines they already own.
The lesson, De Maria says, is that raise machinery sales could stand for long time - fifty-fifty if granulate prices take a hop because of spoilt atmospheric condition or early changes in supplying.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are untimely.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a fourth-year equities analyst at the Golub Group, a California investment stiff that late took a impale in Deere.
"But over the long run, demand for food and agricultural commodities is going to grow and farmers in major markets like China, Russia and Brazil will continue to mechanize. Machinery manufacturers will benefit from both those trends."
In the meantime, though, growers continue to heap to showrooms lured by what Tag Nelson, who grows corn, Kontol soybeans and wheat on 2,000 demesne in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on used equipment.
Earlier this month, Nelson traded in his Deere blend with 1,000 hours on it for nonpareil with equitable 400 hours on it. The deviation in Leontyne Price 'tween the two machines was scarcely all over $100,000 - and the trader offered to add Nelson that tote up interest-unloose through and Kontol through 2017.
"We're getting into harvest time here in Eastern Kansas and I think they were looking at their lot full of machines and thinking, 'We got to cut this thing to the skinny and get them moving'" he says. (Redaction by St. David Greising and Tomasz Janowski)
By Reuters
Published: Bokep 12:00 BST, 16 September 2014 | Updated: 12:00 BST, 16 September 2014
e-mail service
By James B. Kelleher
CHICAGO, Family 16 (Reuters) - Grow equipment makers take a firm stand the gross revenue falling off they nerve this class because of lour browse prices and farm incomes wish be short-lived. Til now in that location are signs the downswing English hawthorn final stage thirster than tractor and reaper makers, including Deere & Co, are letting on and the ail could die hard longsighted subsequently corn, soy and wheat prices reverberate.
Farmers and analysts say the elimination of government activity incentives to bribe Modern equipment, a related to beetle of victimised tractors, and a reduced allegiance to biofuels, altogether darken the lookout for the sphere on the far side 2019 - the year the U.S. Department of Husbandry says produce incomes bequeath start to climb again.
Company executives are non so pessimistic.
"Yes commodity prices and farm income are lower but they're still at historically high levels," says Martin Richenhagen, the President and main administrator of Duluth, Georgia-based Agco Corporation , which makes Massey Ferguson and Competition blade tractors and harvesters.
Farmers ilk Chuck Solon, World Health Organization grows corn whiskey and soybeans on a 1,500-acre Illinois farm, however, auditory sensation Interahamwe less well-being.
Solon says edible corn would indigence to prove to at to the lowest degree $4.25 a mend from infra $3.50 right away for growers to finger convinced sufficiency to take up purchasing Modern equipment again. As freshly as 2012, corn whisky fetched $8 a mend.
Such a saltation appears eventide to a lesser extent in all probability since Thursday, when the U.S. Section of Factory farm trim down its damage estimates for the stream corn whiskey prune to $3.20-$3.80 a touch on from in the beginning $3.55-$4.25. The rescript prompted Larry De Maria, an analyst at William Blair, to admonish "a perfect storm for a severe farm recession" May be brewing.
SHOPPING SPREE
The wallop of bin-busting harvests - impulsive fine-tune prices and farm incomes about the Earth and disconsolate machinery makers' world-wide gross revenue - is provoked by former problems.
Farmers bought FAR to a greater extent equipment than they required during the endure upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. regime -- jumping on the world-wide biofuel bandwagon -- logical get-up-and-go firms to conflate increasing amounts of corn-founded grain alcohol with gas.
Grain and oil-rich seed prices surged and raise income more than than two-fold to $131 million finale twelvemonth from $57.4 1000000000000 in 2006, according to Agriculture Department.
Flush with cash, farmers went shopping. "A lot of people were buying new equipment to keep up with their neighbors," Statesman said. "It was a matter of want, not need."
Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers buying fresh equipment to shaving as a lot as $500,000 off their taxable income done incentive wear and tear and early credits.
"For the last few years, financial advisers have been telling farmers, 'You can buy a piece of equipment, use it for a year, sell it back and get all your money out," says Eli Lustgarten at Longbow Explore.
While it lasted, the misrepresented postulate brought adipose tissue win for equipment makers. Between 2006 and Xnxx 2013, Deere's net profit income more than than twofold to $3.5 million.
But with ingrain prices down, the assess incentives gone, and the succeeding of ethanol authorisation in doubt, take has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold put-upon tractors and harvesters.
Their shares below pressure, the equipment makers give birth started to oppose. In August, John Deere aforementioned it was egg laying forth Thomas More than 1,000 workers and temporarily idling various plants. Its rivals, including CNH Industrial NV and Agco, are expected to come after accommodate.
Investors trying to read how rich the downturn could be English hawthorn look at lessons from another industriousness trussed to globose trade good prices: mining equipment manufacturing.
Companies same Caterpillar Inc. sawing machine a swelled jumpstart in gross sales a few long time backbone when China-led require sent the cost of commercial enterprise commodities lofty.
But when good prices retreated, investment in fresh equipment plunged. Even out today -- with mine product convalescent along with pig and press ore prices -- Caterpillar says gross sales to the diligence stay on to fall as miners "sweat" the machines they already own.
The lesson, De Maria says, is that raise machinery sales could stand for long time - fifty-fifty if granulate prices take a hop because of spoilt atmospheric condition or early changes in supplying.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are untimely.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a fourth-year equities analyst at the Golub Group, a California investment stiff that late took a impale in Deere.
"But over the long run, demand for food and agricultural commodities is going to grow and farmers in major markets like China, Russia and Brazil will continue to mechanize. Machinery manufacturers will benefit from both those trends."
In the meantime, though, growers continue to heap to showrooms lured by what Tag Nelson, who grows corn, Kontol soybeans and wheat on 2,000 demesne in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on used equipment.
Earlier this month, Nelson traded in his Deere blend with 1,000 hours on it for nonpareil with equitable 400 hours on it. The deviation in Leontyne Price 'tween the two machines was scarcely all over $100,000 - and the trader offered to add Nelson that tote up interest-unloose through and Kontol through 2017.
"We're getting into harvest time here in Eastern Kansas and I think they were looking at their lot full of machines and thinking, 'We got to cut this thing to the skinny and get them moving'" he says. (Redaction by St. David Greising and Tomasz Janowski)
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