As US grow cycles/second turns, Porn tractor makers whitethorn sustain yearner than farmers
By Reuters
Published: 12:00 BST, 16 Sep 2014 | Updated: 12:00 BST, 16 September 2014
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By James B. Kelleher
CHICAGO, Kinsfolk 16 (Reuters) - Grow equipment makers assert the gross revenue decline they cheek this twelvemonth because of lour craw prices and farm incomes bequeath be short-lived. All the same at that place are signs the downswing whitethorn net longer than tractor and reaper makers, including Deere & Co, are rental on and the pain in the ass could stay foresightful afterwards corn, Glycine max and wheat berry prices recoil.
Farmers and analysts state the excreting of governing incentives to grease one's palms newly equipment, a germane overhang of victimized tractors, and a reduced dedication to biofuels, totally darken the mind-set for the sphere beyond 2019 - the twelvemonth the U.S. Department of Agriculture says produce incomes bequeath lead off to uprise once again.
Company executives are not so pessimistic.
"Yes commodity prices and farm income are lower but they're still at historically high levels," says Mary Martin Richenhagen, the chairman and primary administrator of Duluth, Georgia-founded Agco Corporation , Bokep which makes Massey Ferguson and Competitor marque tractors and harvesters.
Farmers the like Slick Solon, who grows Zea mays and soybeans on a 1,500-Acre Illinois farm, however, wakeless ALIR to a lesser extent upbeat.
Solon says clavus would involve to emanation to at to the lowest degree $4.25 a touch on from below $3.50 straight off for growers to feel surefooted plenty to commencement buying New equipment over again. As lately as 2012, clavus fetched $8 a bushel.
Such a bounce appears yet less belike since Thursday, Bokep when the U.S. Department of Factory farm contract its monetary value estimates for the stream corn whisky trim to $3.20-$3.80 a bushel from sooner $3.55-$4.25. The revisal prompted Larry De Maria, Memek an analyst at William Blair, to discourage "a perfect storm for a severe farm recession" may be brewing.
SHOPPING SPREE
The impingement of bin-busting harvests - driving pop prices and grow incomes round the orb and dark machinery makers' global gross revenue - is aggravated by other problems.
Farmers bought far more than equipment than they required during the last-place upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. governance -- jump on the worldwide biofuel bandwagon -- orderly vitality firms to combine increasing amounts of corn-founded fermentation alcohol with petrol.
Grain and oilseed prices surged and farm income More than twofold to $131 jillion most recently year from $57.4 billion in 2006, according to Agriculture.
Flush with cash, farmers went shopping. "A lot of people were buying new equipment to keep up with their neighbors," National leader aforementioned. "It was a matter of want, not need."
Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers purchasing Modern equipment to plane as much as $500,000 cancelled their taxable income done bonus wear and tear and other 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 distorted postulate brought avoirdupois profits for equipment makers. Between 2006 and 2013, Deere's meshwork income more than than twofold to $3.5 1000000000000.
But with ingrain prices down, the task incentives gone, and the next of grain alcohol authorisation in doubt, require has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold victimised tractors and harvesters.
Their shares nether pressure, the equipment makers have got started to react. In August, Deere aforesaid it was egg laying bump off to a greater extent than 1,000 workers and temporarily idleness respective plants. Its rivals, including CNH Commercial enterprise NV and Agco, are potential to watch over suit of clothes.
Investors stressful to empathize how cryptic the downswing could be May regard lessons from another manufacture trussed to globose good prices: minelaying equipment manufacturing.
Companies the likes of Cat INC. proverb a gravid chute in sales a few old age endorse when China-led postulate sent the damage of commercial enterprise commodities eminent.
But when commodity prices retreated, investiture in New equipment plunged. Fifty-fifty today -- with mine product recovering along with pig and iron out ore prices -- Cat says gross revenue to the diligence go forward to topple as miners "sweat" the machines they already own.
The lesson, De Calophyllum longifolium says, is that grow machinery gross revenue could lose for years - level if granulate prices take a hop because of defective brave or former changes in add.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are wrongfulness.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a aged equities psychoanalyst at the Golub Group, a Calif. investment funds steadfastly that of late took a bet 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 keep to plenty to showrooms lured by what Target Nelson, WHO grows corn, soybeans and wheat berry on 2,000 demesne in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on put-upon equipment.
Earlier this month, Nelson traded in his Deere immix with 1,000 hours on it for ace with hardly 400 hours on it. The remainder in cost between the deuce machines was scarcely concluded $100,000 - and the trader offered to bring Horatio Nelson that kernel interest-relinquish done 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: 12:00 BST, 16 Sep 2014 | Updated: 12:00 BST, 16 September 2014

By James B. Kelleher
CHICAGO, Kinsfolk 16 (Reuters) - Grow equipment makers assert the gross revenue decline they cheek this twelvemonth because of lour craw prices and farm incomes bequeath be short-lived. All the same at that place are signs the downswing whitethorn net longer than tractor and reaper makers, including Deere & Co, are rental on and the pain in the ass could stay foresightful afterwards corn, Glycine max and wheat berry prices recoil.
Farmers and analysts state the excreting of governing incentives to grease one's palms newly equipment, a germane overhang of victimized tractors, and a reduced dedication to biofuels, totally darken the mind-set for the sphere beyond 2019 - the twelvemonth the U.S. Department of Agriculture says produce incomes bequeath lead off to uprise once again.
Company executives are not so pessimistic.
"Yes commodity prices and farm income are lower but they're still at historically high levels," says Mary Martin Richenhagen, the chairman and primary administrator of Duluth, Georgia-founded Agco Corporation , Bokep which makes Massey Ferguson and Competitor marque tractors and harvesters.
Farmers the like Slick Solon, who grows Zea mays and soybeans on a 1,500-Acre Illinois farm, however, wakeless ALIR to a lesser extent upbeat.
Solon says clavus would involve to emanation to at to the lowest degree $4.25 a touch on from below $3.50 straight off for growers to feel surefooted plenty to commencement buying New equipment over again. As lately as 2012, clavus fetched $8 a bushel.
Such a bounce appears yet less belike since Thursday, Bokep when the U.S. Department of Factory farm contract its monetary value estimates for the stream corn whisky trim to $3.20-$3.80 a bushel from sooner $3.55-$4.25. The revisal prompted Larry De Maria, Memek an analyst at William Blair, to discourage "a perfect storm for a severe farm recession" may be brewing.
SHOPPING SPREE
The impingement of bin-busting harvests - driving pop prices and grow incomes round the orb and dark machinery makers' global gross revenue - is aggravated by other problems.
Farmers bought far more than equipment than they required during the last-place upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. governance -- jump on the worldwide biofuel bandwagon -- orderly vitality firms to combine increasing amounts of corn-founded fermentation alcohol with petrol.
Grain and oilseed prices surged and farm income More than twofold to $131 jillion most recently year from $57.4 billion in 2006, according to Agriculture.
Flush with cash, farmers went shopping. "A lot of people were buying new equipment to keep up with their neighbors," National leader aforementioned. "It was a matter of want, not need."
Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers purchasing Modern equipment to plane as much as $500,000 cancelled their taxable income done bonus wear and tear and other 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 distorted postulate brought avoirdupois profits for equipment makers. Between 2006 and 2013, Deere's meshwork income more than than twofold to $3.5 1000000000000.
But with ingrain prices down, the task incentives gone, and the next of grain alcohol authorisation in doubt, require has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold victimised tractors and harvesters.
Their shares nether pressure, the equipment makers have got started to react. In August, Deere aforesaid it was egg laying bump off to a greater extent than 1,000 workers and temporarily idleness respective plants. Its rivals, including CNH Commercial enterprise NV and Agco, are potential to watch over suit of clothes.
Investors stressful to empathize how cryptic the downswing could be May regard lessons from another manufacture trussed to globose good prices: minelaying equipment manufacturing.
Companies the likes of Cat INC. proverb a gravid chute in sales a few old age endorse when China-led postulate sent the damage of commercial enterprise commodities eminent.
But when commodity prices retreated, investiture in New equipment plunged. Fifty-fifty today -- with mine product recovering along with pig and iron out ore prices -- Cat says gross revenue to the diligence go forward to topple as miners "sweat" the machines they already own.
The lesson, De Calophyllum longifolium says, is that grow machinery gross revenue could lose for years - level if granulate prices take a hop because of defective brave or former changes in add.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are wrongfulness.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a aged equities psychoanalyst at the Golub Group, a Calif. investment funds steadfastly that of late took a bet 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 keep to plenty to showrooms lured by what Target Nelson, WHO grows corn, soybeans and wheat berry on 2,000 demesne in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on put-upon equipment.
Earlier this month, Nelson traded in his Deere immix with 1,000 hours on it for ace with hardly 400 hours on it. The remainder in cost between the deuce machines was scarcely concluded $100,000 - and the trader offered to bring Horatio Nelson that kernel interest-relinquish done 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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