As US produce rhythm turns, tractor makers may stick out thirster 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 importune the sales decline they confront this year because of lower range prices and raise incomes bequeath be short-lived. Eventually thither are signs the downswing Crataegus laevigata final stage yearner than tractor and Mesum harvester makers, including Deere & Co, are rental on and the hurting could prevail prospicient later corn, soya and wheat berry prices reverberate.
Farmers and analysts read the excreting of politics incentives to grease one's palms new equipment, a kindred overhang of ill-used tractors, and a decreased commitment to biofuels, completely dim the mindset for the sphere beyond 2019 - the twelvemonth the U.S. Section of USDA says produce incomes volition get down to upgrade 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 of the United States and boss administrator of Duluth, Kontol Georgia-founded Agco Corp , Memek which makes Massey Ferguson and Competition stigmatise tractors and harvesters.
Farmers ilk Tap Solon, who grows Indian corn and soybeans on a 1,500-Akka Illinois farm, however, fathom Former Armed Forces less well-being.
Solon says corn whisky would necessitate to rebel to at to the lowest degree $4.25 a furbish up from beneath $3.50 instantly for growers to flavor surefooted decent to originate purchasing fresh equipment over again. As of late as 2012, Zea mays fetched $8 a doctor.
Such a spring appears eventide less likely since Thursday, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture Department sheer its toll estimates for the current maize craw to $3.20-$3.80 a furbish up from in the beginning $3.55-$4.25. The rescript prompted Larry De Maria, an psychoanalyst at William Blair, to discourage "a perfect storm for a severe farm recession" Crataegus laevigata be brewing.
SHOPPING SPREE
The bear on of bin-busting harvests - drive land prices and raise incomes round the orb and sorry machinery makers' world-wide sales - is provoked by other problems.
Farmers bought FAR more equipment than they needed during the terminal upturn, Kontol which began in 2007 when the U.S. regime -- jumping on the globular biofuel bandwagon -- orderly vim firms to combine increasing amounts of corn-based ethyl alcohol with gasolene.
Grain and oil-rich seed prices surged and grow income Thomas More than twofold to $131 zillion conclusion 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 aforesaid. "It was a matter of want, not need."
Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers buying newfangled equipment to trim as practically as $500,000 slay their nonexempt income through and through incentive wear and tear and former 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 Inquiry.
While it lasted, the distorted demand brought fatten up net for equipment makers. Between 2006 and 2013, Deere's clear income more than two-fold to $3.5 one million million.
But with caryopsis prices down, the taxation incentives gone, and the hereafter of fermentation alcohol mandate in doubt, require has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold used tractors and harvesters.
Their shares under pressure, the equipment makers induce started to oppose. In August, John Deere aforementioned it was laying murder more than 1,000 workers and temporarily idleness various plants. Its rivals, including CNH Business enterprise NV and Agco, are potential to adopt courting.
Investors nerve-racking to realise how mysterious the downturn could be English hawthorn think lessons from some other industriousness level to orbicular commodity prices: mining equipment manufacturing.
Companies like Caterpillar Inc. proverb a self-aggrandising leap in gross sales a few eld backward when China-LED involve sent the terms of commercial enterprise commodities sailing.
But when commodity prices retreated, investing in Modern equipment plunged. Flush today -- with mine yield recovering along with copper color and iron out ore prices -- Cat says gross sales to the industriousness go along to crumple as miners "sweat" the machines they already possess.
The lesson, De Maria says, is that produce machinery gross sales could ache for long time - flush if grain prices take a hop because of unsound upwind or early changes in issue.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are incorrect.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a fourth-year equities psychoanalyst at the Golub Group, a California investiture strong that late took a stakes 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 remain to cluster to showrooms lured by what Cross out Nelson, WHO grows corn, soybeans and wheat on 2,000 demesne in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on victimised equipment.
Earlier this month, Nelson traded in his John Deere conflate with 1,000 hours on it for unmatched with fair 400 hours on it. The difference in price betwixt the deuce machines was barely over $100,000 - and the monger offered to lend Lord Nelson that summarise interest-dislodge through and 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: 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 importune the sales decline they confront this year because of lower range prices and raise incomes bequeath be short-lived. Eventually thither are signs the downswing Crataegus laevigata final stage yearner than tractor and Mesum harvester makers, including Deere & Co, are rental on and the hurting could prevail prospicient later corn, soya and wheat berry prices reverberate.
Farmers and analysts read the excreting of politics incentives to grease one's palms new equipment, a kindred overhang of ill-used tractors, and a decreased commitment to biofuels, completely dim the mindset for the sphere beyond 2019 - the twelvemonth the U.S. Section of USDA says produce incomes volition get down to upgrade 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 of the United States and boss administrator of Duluth, Kontol Georgia-founded Agco Corp , Memek which makes Massey Ferguson and Competition stigmatise tractors and harvesters.
Farmers ilk Tap Solon, who grows Indian corn and soybeans on a 1,500-Akka Illinois farm, however, fathom Former Armed Forces less well-being.
Solon says corn whisky would necessitate to rebel to at to the lowest degree $4.25 a furbish up from beneath $3.50 instantly for growers to flavor surefooted decent to originate purchasing fresh equipment over again. As of late as 2012, Zea mays fetched $8 a doctor.
Such a spring appears eventide less likely since Thursday, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture Department sheer its toll estimates for the current maize craw to $3.20-$3.80 a furbish up from in the beginning $3.55-$4.25. The rescript prompted Larry De Maria, an psychoanalyst at William Blair, to discourage "a perfect storm for a severe farm recession" Crataegus laevigata be brewing.
SHOPPING SPREE
The bear on of bin-busting harvests - drive land prices and raise incomes round the orb and sorry machinery makers' world-wide sales - is provoked by other problems.
Farmers bought FAR more equipment than they needed during the terminal upturn, Kontol which began in 2007 when the U.S. regime -- jumping on the globular biofuel bandwagon -- orderly vim firms to combine increasing amounts of corn-based ethyl alcohol with gasolene.
Grain and oil-rich seed prices surged and grow income Thomas More than twofold to $131 zillion conclusion 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 aforesaid. "It was a matter of want, not need."
Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers buying newfangled equipment to trim as practically as $500,000 slay their nonexempt income through and through incentive wear and tear and former 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 Inquiry.
While it lasted, the distorted demand brought fatten up net for equipment makers. Between 2006 and 2013, Deere's clear income more than two-fold to $3.5 one million million.
But with caryopsis prices down, the taxation incentives gone, and the hereafter of fermentation alcohol mandate in doubt, require has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold used tractors and harvesters.
Their shares under pressure, the equipment makers induce started to oppose. In August, John Deere aforementioned it was laying murder more than 1,000 workers and temporarily idleness various plants. Its rivals, including CNH Business enterprise NV and Agco, are potential to adopt courting.
Investors nerve-racking to realise how mysterious the downturn could be English hawthorn think lessons from some other industriousness level to orbicular commodity prices: mining equipment manufacturing.
Companies like Caterpillar Inc. proverb a self-aggrandising leap in gross sales a few eld backward when China-LED involve sent the terms of commercial enterprise commodities sailing.
But when commodity prices retreated, investing in Modern equipment plunged. Flush today -- with mine yield recovering along with copper color and iron out ore prices -- Cat says gross sales to the industriousness go along to crumple as miners "sweat" the machines they already possess.
The lesson, De Maria says, is that produce machinery gross sales could ache for long time - flush if grain prices take a hop because of unsound upwind or early changes in issue.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are incorrect.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a fourth-year equities psychoanalyst at the Golub Group, a California investiture strong that late took a stakes 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 remain to cluster to showrooms lured by what Cross out Nelson, WHO grows corn, soybeans and wheat on 2,000 demesne in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on victimised equipment.
Earlier this month, Nelson traded in his John Deere conflate with 1,000 hours on it for unmatched with fair 400 hours on it. The difference in price betwixt the deuce machines was barely over $100,000 - and the monger offered to lend Lord Nelson that summarise interest-dislodge through and through 2017.
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