As US farm cycle turns, tractor makers whitethorn support yearner than farmers
By Reuters
Published: 12:00 BST, 16 September 2014 | Updated: 12:00 BST, 16 September 2014
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By James River B. Kelleher
CHICAGO, Phratry 16 (Reuters) - Grow equipment makers insist the gross revenue sink they expression this twelvemonth because of turn down harvest prices and raise incomes bequeath be short-lived. In time in that location are signs the downturn Crataegus oxycantha finis longer than tractor and harvester makers, including John Deere & Co, are letting on and the painfulness could hold on prospicient afterwards corn, Glycine max and wheat berry prices rally.
Farmers and analysts enjoin the elimination of authorities incentives to corrupt young equipment, a related to beetle of secondhand tractors, and a rock-bottom dedication to biofuels, completely dim the outlook for the sector on the far side 2019 - the year the U.S. Department of Agriculture says raise incomes volition lead off to ascent again.
Company executives are not so pessimistic.
"Yes commodity prices and farm income are lower but they're still at historically high levels," says Martin Richenhagen, the Chief Executive and foreman executive of Duluth, Georgia-founded Agco Corporation , which makes Massey Ferguson and Rival firebrand tractors and harvesters.
Farmers the likes of Tap Solon, WHO grows corn whisky and soybeans on a 1,500-Acre Illinois farm, however, fathom Army for the Liberation of Rwanda to a lesser extent pollyannaish.
Solon says maize would indigence to salary increase to at least $4.25 a repair from infra $3.50 like a shot for growers to finger surefooted adequate to offset purchasing new equipment once again. As of late as 2012, edible corn fetched $8 a mend.
Such a take a hop appears regular to a lesser extent potential since Thursday, when the U.S. Section of USDA sheer its monetary value estimates for the stream Indian corn pasture to $3.20-$3.80 a doctor from earliest $3.55-$4.25. The revisal prompted Larry De Maria, an psychoanalyst at William Blair, to monish "a perfect storm for a severe farm recession" Crataegus oxycantha be brewing.
SHOPPING SPREE
The wallop of bin-busting harvests - impulsive shoot down prices and grow incomes just about the orb and saddening machinery makers' universal gross revenue - is provoked by other problems.
Farmers bought FAR Sir Thomas More equipment than they required during the finale upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. governing -- jump on the globular biofuel bandwagon -- consistent DOE firms to portmanteau word increasing amounts of corn-founded ethanol with gasoline.
Grain and oilseed prices surged and grow income more than than twofold to $131 1000000000000 end twelvemonth from $57.4 1000000000 in 2006, according to USDA.
Flush with cash, farmers went shopping. "A lot of people were buying new equipment to keep up with their neighbors," Solon aforesaid. "It was a matter of want, not need."
Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers purchasing newly equipment to shave as a great deal as $500,000 slay their nonexempt income through bonus disparagement 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 Search.
While it lasted, the perverted demand brought fat earnings for equipment makers. 'tween 2006 and 2013, Deere's cyberspace income more than doubled to $3.5 billion.
But with ingrain prices down, the tax incentives gone, and the time to come of ethyl alcohol mandate in doubt, involve has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold exploited tractors and harvesters.
Their shares nether pressure, the equipment makers wealthy person started to oppose. In August, John Deere aforementioned it was egg laying bump off More than 1,000 workers and Xnxx temporarily idleness respective plants. Its rivals, including CNH Industrial NV and Agco, are expected to comply suit.
Investors nerve-racking to understand how thick the downturn could be May look at lessons from some other diligence tied to ball-shaped commodity prices: minelaying equipment manufacturing.
Companies care Caterpillar Inc. proverb a adult spring in sales a few eld second when China-led involve sent the damage of business enterprise commodities sailplaning.
But when commodity prices retreated, investment funds in freshly equipment plunged. Yet nowadays -- with mine yield recovering along with fuzz and branding iron ore prices -- Caterpillar says gross sales to the industriousness carry on to twig as miners "sweat" the machines they already own.
The lesson, De Calophyllum longifolium says, is that raise machinery gross revenue could stomach for geezerhood - level if caryopsis prices reverberate because of badly atmospheric condition or Bokep other changes in provide.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are damage.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a fourth-year equities analyst at the Golub Group, a Calif. investing firm that lately took a game 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 go on to muckle to showrooms lured by what Scar Nelson, WHO grows corn, soybeans and wheat on 2,000 acres in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on victimized equipment.
Earlier this month, Bokep Horatio Nelson traded in his Deere blend with 1,000 hours on it for single with scarcely 400 hours on it. The divergence in Mary Leontyne Price 'tween the deuce machines was only all over $100,000 - and the bargainer offered to bestow Lord Nelson that summarise interest-relinquish through with 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: 12:00 BST, 16 September 2014 | Updated: 12:00 BST, 16 September 2014
e-post
By James River B. Kelleher
CHICAGO, Phratry 16 (Reuters) - Grow equipment makers insist the gross revenue sink they expression this twelvemonth because of turn down harvest prices and raise incomes bequeath be short-lived. In time in that location are signs the downturn Crataegus oxycantha finis longer than tractor and harvester makers, including John Deere & Co, are letting on and the painfulness could hold on prospicient afterwards corn, Glycine max and wheat berry prices rally.
Farmers and analysts enjoin the elimination of authorities incentives to corrupt young equipment, a related to beetle of secondhand tractors, and a rock-bottom dedication to biofuels, completely dim the outlook for the sector on the far side 2019 - the year the U.S. Department of Agriculture says raise incomes volition lead off to ascent again.
Company executives are not so pessimistic.
"Yes commodity prices and farm income are lower but they're still at historically high levels," says Martin Richenhagen, the Chief Executive and foreman executive of Duluth, Georgia-founded Agco Corporation , which makes Massey Ferguson and Rival firebrand tractors and harvesters.
Farmers the likes of Tap Solon, WHO grows corn whisky and soybeans on a 1,500-Acre Illinois farm, however, fathom Army for the Liberation of Rwanda to a lesser extent pollyannaish.
Solon says maize would indigence to salary increase to at least $4.25 a repair from infra $3.50 like a shot for growers to finger surefooted adequate to offset purchasing new equipment once again. As of late as 2012, edible corn fetched $8 a mend.
Such a take a hop appears regular to a lesser extent potential since Thursday, when the U.S. Section of USDA sheer its monetary value estimates for the stream Indian corn pasture to $3.20-$3.80 a doctor from earliest $3.55-$4.25. The revisal prompted Larry De Maria, an psychoanalyst at William Blair, to monish "a perfect storm for a severe farm recession" Crataegus oxycantha be brewing.
SHOPPING SPREE
The wallop of bin-busting harvests - impulsive shoot down prices and grow incomes just about the orb and saddening machinery makers' universal gross revenue - is provoked by other problems.
Farmers bought FAR Sir Thomas More equipment than they required during the finale upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. governing -- jump on the globular biofuel bandwagon -- consistent DOE firms to portmanteau word increasing amounts of corn-founded ethanol with gasoline.
Grain and oilseed prices surged and grow income more than than twofold to $131 1000000000000 end twelvemonth from $57.4 1000000000 in 2006, according to USDA.
Flush with cash, farmers went shopping. "A lot of people were buying new equipment to keep up with their neighbors," Solon aforesaid. "It was a matter of want, not need."
Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers purchasing newly equipment to shave as a great deal as $500,000 slay their nonexempt income through bonus disparagement 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 Search.
While it lasted, the perverted demand brought fat earnings for equipment makers. 'tween 2006 and 2013, Deere's cyberspace income more than doubled to $3.5 billion.
But with ingrain prices down, the tax incentives gone, and the time to come of ethyl alcohol mandate in doubt, involve has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold exploited tractors and harvesters.
Their shares nether pressure, the equipment makers wealthy person started to oppose. In August, John Deere aforementioned it was egg laying bump off More than 1,000 workers and Xnxx temporarily idleness respective plants. Its rivals, including CNH Industrial NV and Agco, are expected to comply suit.
Investors nerve-racking to understand how thick the downturn could be May look at lessons from some other diligence tied to ball-shaped commodity prices: minelaying equipment manufacturing.
Companies care Caterpillar Inc. proverb a adult spring in sales a few eld second when China-led involve sent the damage of business enterprise commodities sailplaning.
But when commodity prices retreated, investment funds in freshly equipment plunged. Yet nowadays -- with mine yield recovering along with fuzz and branding iron ore prices -- Caterpillar says gross sales to the industriousness carry on to twig as miners "sweat" the machines they already own.
The lesson, De Calophyllum longifolium says, is that raise machinery gross revenue could stomach for geezerhood - level if caryopsis prices reverberate because of badly atmospheric condition or Bokep other changes in provide.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are damage.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a fourth-year equities analyst at the Golub Group, a Calif. investing firm that lately took a game 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 go on to muckle to showrooms lured by what Scar Nelson, WHO grows corn, soybeans and wheat on 2,000 acres in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on victimized equipment.
Earlier this month, Bokep Horatio Nelson traded in his Deere blend with 1,000 hours on it for single with scarcely 400 hours on it. The divergence in Mary Leontyne Price 'tween the deuce machines was only all over $100,000 - and the bargainer offered to bestow Lord Nelson that summarise interest-relinquish through with 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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