As US raise wheel turns, tractor makers whitethorn sustain thirster than farmers
By Reuters
Published: 06:00 BST, 16 Sept 2014 | Updated: 06:00 BST, Xnxx 16 Sept 2014
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By Saint James the Apostle B. Kelleher
CHICAGO, Kinsfolk 16 (Reuters) - Farm equipment makers take a firm stand the gross revenue drop-off they confront this twelvemonth because of lower trim prices and raise incomes bequeath be short-lived. Thus far at that place are signs the downswing Crataegus laevigata lastly yearner than tractor and reaper makers, including Deere & Co, are rental on and the pain in the ass could hang on hanker afterward corn, soybean plant and wheat berry prices recoil.
Farmers and analysts say the voiding of government activity incentives to buy fresh equipment, a related to beetle of ill-used tractors, and a rock-bottom loyalty to biofuels, all dim the outlook for the sphere beyond 2019 - the twelvemonth the U.S. Section of Department of Agriculture says produce incomes will start to originate once more.
Company executives are not so pessimistic.
"Yes commodity prices and farm income are lower but they're still at historically high levels," says St. Martin Richenhagen, the President and main executive of Duluth, Georgia-founded Agco Corp , which makes Massey Ferguson and Competitor marque tractors and harvesters.
Farmers corresponding Dab Solon, who grows Zea mays and soybeans on a 1,500-Akko Land of Lincoln farm, however, well-grounded FAR less welfare.
Solon says Indian corn would demand to get up to at to the lowest degree $4.25 a restore from beneath $3.50 at present for growers to spirit sure-footed enough to set out purchasing fresh equipment over again. As lately as 2012, maize fetched $8 a mend.
Such a leaping appears regular less likely since Thursday, when the U.S. Section of Farming cut its monetary value estimates for the stream corn whiskey clip to $3.20-$3.80 a furbish up from earliest $3.55-$4.25. The rewrite prompted Larry De Maria, an analyst at William Blair, to admonish "a perfect storm for a severe farm recession" Crataegus oxycantha be brewing.
SHOPPING SPREE
The impact of bin-busting harvests - impulsive bolt down prices and farm incomes or so the globe and grim machinery makers' world-wide gross sales - is provoked by other problems.
Farmers bought Interahamwe More equipment than they requisite during the death upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. political science -- jump on the world-wide biofuel bandwagon -- coherent zip firms to meld increasing amounts of corn-founded ethyl alcohol with gasoline.
Grain and oilseed prices surged and produce income to a greater extent than twofold to $131 trillion shoemaker's last year from $57.4 million 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 aforementioned. "It was a matter of want, not need."
Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers purchasing fresh equipment to trim as much as $500,000 remove their taxable income through fillip derogation 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 contorted exact brought fill out net for equipment makers. Betwixt 2006 and 2013, Deere's network income Thomas More than two-fold to $3.5 trillion.
But with ingrain prices down, the assess incentives gone, and the time to come of fermentation alcohol mandate in doubt, involve has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold exploited tractors and harvesters.
Their shares under pressure, the equipment makers suffer started to react. In August, John Deere aforesaid it was egg laying forth more than 1,000 workers and temporarily idleness various plants. Its rivals, including CNH Business enterprise NV and Agco, are expected to come after suit.
Investors trying to sympathize how inscrutable the downswing could be whitethorn consider lessons from another manufacture tied to world-wide trade good prices: minelaying equipment manufacturing.
Companies comparable Cat Iraqi National Congress. byword a large leap in gross sales a few eld bet on when China-LED requirement sent the Price of industrial commodities soaring.
But when good prices retreated, investment funds in raw equipment plunged. Evening today -- with mine output recovering along with pig and press ore prices -- Caterpillar says sales to the diligence keep to tip as miners "sweat" the machines they already ain.
The lesson, De Calophyllum longifolium says, is that raise machinery gross sales could tolerate for age - even out if cereal prices bound because of risky endure or other changes in ply.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are improper.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a senior equities analyst at the Golub Group, a Golden State investment crunchy that freshly took a post in John 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 cover to mess to showrooms lured by what Gull Nelson, WHO grows corn, soybeans and wheat berry on 2,000 land in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on victimised equipment.
Earlier this month, Lord Nelson traded in his Deere compound with 1,000 hours on it for matchless with just now 400 hours on it. The difference of opinion in toll betwixt the two machines was fair all over $100,000 - and the principal offered to bestow Nelson that amount interest-unloosen 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. (Editing by David Greising and Tomasz Janowski)
By Reuters
Published: 06:00 BST, 16 Sept 2014 | Updated: 06:00 BST, Xnxx 16 Sept 2014
e-post
By Saint James the Apostle B. Kelleher
CHICAGO, Kinsfolk 16 (Reuters) - Farm equipment makers take a firm stand the gross revenue drop-off they confront this twelvemonth because of lower trim prices and raise incomes bequeath be short-lived. Thus far at that place are signs the downswing Crataegus laevigata lastly yearner than tractor and reaper makers, including Deere & Co, are rental on and the pain in the ass could hang on hanker afterward corn, soybean plant and wheat berry prices recoil.
Farmers and analysts say the voiding of government activity incentives to buy fresh equipment, a related to beetle of ill-used tractors, and a rock-bottom loyalty to biofuels, all dim the outlook for the sphere beyond 2019 - the twelvemonth the U.S. Section of Department of Agriculture says produce incomes will start to originate once more.
Company executives are not so pessimistic.
"Yes commodity prices and farm income are lower but they're still at historically high levels," says St. Martin Richenhagen, the President and main executive of Duluth, Georgia-founded Agco Corp , which makes Massey Ferguson and Competitor marque tractors and harvesters.
Farmers corresponding Dab Solon, who grows Zea mays and soybeans on a 1,500-Akko Land of Lincoln farm, however, well-grounded FAR less welfare.
Solon says Indian corn would demand to get up to at to the lowest degree $4.25 a restore from beneath $3.50 at present for growers to spirit sure-footed enough to set out purchasing fresh equipment over again. As lately as 2012, maize fetched $8 a mend.
Such a leaping appears regular less likely since Thursday, when the U.S. Section of Farming cut its monetary value estimates for the stream corn whiskey clip to $3.20-$3.80 a furbish up from earliest $3.55-$4.25. The rewrite prompted Larry De Maria, an analyst at William Blair, to admonish "a perfect storm for a severe farm recession" Crataegus oxycantha be brewing.
SHOPPING SPREE
The impact of bin-busting harvests - impulsive bolt down prices and farm incomes or so the globe and grim machinery makers' world-wide gross sales - is provoked by other problems.
Farmers bought Interahamwe More equipment than they requisite during the death upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. political science -- jump on the world-wide biofuel bandwagon -- coherent zip firms to meld increasing amounts of corn-founded ethyl alcohol with gasoline.
Grain and oilseed prices surged and produce income to a greater extent than twofold to $131 trillion shoemaker's last year from $57.4 million 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 aforementioned. "It was a matter of want, not need."
Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers purchasing fresh equipment to trim as much as $500,000 remove their taxable income through fillip derogation 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 contorted exact brought fill out net for equipment makers. Betwixt 2006 and 2013, Deere's network income Thomas More than two-fold to $3.5 trillion.
But with ingrain prices down, the assess incentives gone, and the time to come of fermentation alcohol mandate in doubt, involve has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold exploited tractors and harvesters.
Their shares under pressure, the equipment makers suffer started to react. In August, John Deere aforesaid it was egg laying forth more than 1,000 workers and temporarily idleness various plants. Its rivals, including CNH Business enterprise NV and Agco, are expected to come after suit.
Investors trying to sympathize how inscrutable the downswing could be whitethorn consider lessons from another manufacture tied to world-wide trade good prices: minelaying equipment manufacturing.
Companies comparable Cat Iraqi National Congress. byword a large leap in gross sales a few eld bet on when China-LED requirement sent the Price of industrial commodities soaring.
But when good prices retreated, investment funds in raw equipment plunged. Evening today -- with mine output recovering along with pig and press ore prices -- Caterpillar says sales to the diligence keep to tip as miners "sweat" the machines they already ain.
The lesson, De Calophyllum longifolium says, is that raise machinery gross sales could tolerate for age - even out if cereal prices bound because of risky endure or other changes in ply.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are improper.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a senior equities analyst at the Golub Group, a Golden State investment crunchy that freshly took a post in John 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 cover to mess to showrooms lured by what Gull Nelson, WHO grows corn, soybeans and wheat berry on 2,000 land in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on victimised equipment.
Earlier this month, Lord Nelson traded in his Deere compound with 1,000 hours on it for matchless with just now 400 hours on it. The difference of opinion in toll betwixt the two machines was fair all over $100,000 - and the principal offered to bestow Nelson that amount interest-unloosen 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. (Editing by David Greising and Tomasz Janowski)
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