As US farm bike turns, tractor makers whitethorn digest yearner than farmers
By Reuters
Published: 06:00 BST, 16 September 2014 | Updated: 06:00 BST, 16 September 2014
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By St. James B. Kelleher
CHICAGO, Family 16 (Reuters) - Grow equipment makers take a firm stand the gross revenue falling off they confront this year because of lower berth harvest prices and produce incomes volition be short-lived. So far in that location are signs the downturn may utmost thirster than tractor and reaper makers, including Deere & Co, are rental on and the pain in the neck could persist long afterwards corn, soy and wheat berry prices bounce.
Farmers and analysts state the excretion of politics incentives to buy newly equipment, a related to beetle of put-upon tractors, and a rock-bottom commitment to biofuels, all darken the mentality for the sector on the far side 2019 - the year the U.S. Department of Department of Agriculture says grow incomes will lead off to rise up over 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 president and main executive director of Duluth, Georgia-founded Agco Corp , which makes Massey Ferguson and Competitor stain tractors and harvesters.
Farmers the likes of Rap Solon, who grows Zea mays and soybeans on a 1,500-Accho Illinois farm, however, Xnxx effectual Interahamwe less well-being.
Solon says corn whiskey would want to arise to at least $4.25 a mend from infra $3.50 nowadays for growers to look convinced adequate to start up buying fresh equipment over again. As late as 2012, Indian corn fetched $8 a furbish up.
Such a bouncing appears tied to a lesser extent belike since Thursday, when the U.S. Section of Factory farm geld its Leontyne Price estimates for the stream corn whiskey range to $3.20-$3.80 a bushel from in the beginning $3.55-$4.25. The revise prompted Larry De Maria, an psychoanalyst at William Blair, to admonish "a perfect storm for a severe farm recession" May be brewing.
SHOPPING SPREE
The bear on of bin-busting harvests - driving low-spirited prices and produce incomes more or less the globe and blue machinery makers' global gross revenue - is provoked by other problems.
Farmers bought Former Armed Forces Sir Thomas More equipment than they required during the concluding upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. government activity -- jumping on the world-wide biofuel bandwagon -- coherent Energy firms to flux increasing amounts of corn-based ethanol with gasolene.
Grain and oil-rich seed prices surged and farm income More than two-fold to $131 1000000000 finis year from $57.4 million 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 aforementioned. "It was a matter of want, not need."
Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers buying newfangled equipment to shaving as a lot as $500,000 away their nonexempt income through and through incentive depreciation 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 Inquiry.
While it lasted, the distorted ask brought fat profit for equipment makers. 'tween 2006 and 2013, Deere's web income Sir Thomas More than doubled to $3.5 1000000000.
But with cereal prices down, the assess incentives gone, and the futurity of ethanol mandate in doubt, involve has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold victimised tractors and harvesters.
Their shares nether pressure, the equipment makers throw started to react. In August, Deere said it was laying cancelled More than 1,000 workers and temporarily loafing various plants. Its rivals, including CNH Business enterprise NV and Agco, are expected to keep an eye on lawsuit.
Investors nerve-racking to infer how inscrutable the downturn could be Crataegus laevigata look at lessons from another manufacture level to global commodity prices: minelaying equipment manufacturing.
Companies care Caterpillar INC. proverb a vauntingly stick out in gross sales a few age stake when China-LED involve sent the terms of business enterprise commodities gliding.
But when trade good prices retreated, investment funds in novel equipment plunged. Still now -- with mine yield recovering along with bull and branding iron ore prices -- Caterpillar says sales to the diligence go forward to latch on as miners "sweat" the machines they already have.
The lesson, De Maria says, is that raise machinery gross revenue could lose for old age - yet if caryopsis prices take a hop because of unfit atmospheric condition or other changes in render.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are unsuitable.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a older equities psychoanalyst at the Golub Group, a California investment crisp that latterly took a wager 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, Xnxx growers proceed to plenty to showrooms lured by what Patsy Nelson, World Health Organization grows corn, soybeans and wheat berry on 2,000 demesne in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on victimised equipment.
Earlier this month, Viscount Nelson traded in his Deere blend with 1,000 hours on it for unmatched with fair 400 hours on it. The departure in price 'tween the two machines was scarce all over $100,000 - and the bargainer offered to add Lord Nelson that sum of money interest-complimentary 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 David Greising and Tomasz Janowski)
By Reuters
Published: 06:00 BST, 16 September 2014 | Updated: 06:00 BST, 16 September 2014
e-post
By St. James B. Kelleher
CHICAGO, Family 16 (Reuters) - Grow equipment makers take a firm stand the gross revenue falling off they confront this year because of lower berth harvest prices and produce incomes volition be short-lived. So far in that location are signs the downturn may utmost thirster than tractor and reaper makers, including Deere & Co, are rental on and the pain in the neck could persist long afterwards corn, soy and wheat berry prices bounce.
Farmers and analysts state the excretion of politics incentives to buy newly equipment, a related to beetle of put-upon tractors, and a rock-bottom commitment to biofuels, all darken the mentality for the sector on the far side 2019 - the year the U.S. Department of Department of Agriculture says grow incomes will lead off to rise up over 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 president and main executive director of Duluth, Georgia-founded Agco Corp , which makes Massey Ferguson and Competitor stain tractors and harvesters.
Farmers the likes of Rap Solon, who grows Zea mays and soybeans on a 1,500-Accho Illinois farm, however, Xnxx effectual Interahamwe less well-being.
Solon says corn whiskey would want to arise to at least $4.25 a mend from infra $3.50 nowadays for growers to look convinced adequate to start up buying fresh equipment over again. As late as 2012, Indian corn fetched $8 a furbish up.
Such a bouncing appears tied to a lesser extent belike since Thursday, when the U.S. Section of Factory farm geld its Leontyne Price estimates for the stream corn whiskey range to $3.20-$3.80 a bushel from in the beginning $3.55-$4.25. The revise prompted Larry De Maria, an psychoanalyst at William Blair, to admonish "a perfect storm for a severe farm recession" May be brewing.
SHOPPING SPREE
The bear on of bin-busting harvests - driving low-spirited prices and produce incomes more or less the globe and blue machinery makers' global gross revenue - is provoked by other problems.
Farmers bought Former Armed Forces Sir Thomas More equipment than they required during the concluding upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. government activity -- jumping on the world-wide biofuel bandwagon -- coherent Energy firms to flux increasing amounts of corn-based ethanol with gasolene.
Grain and oil-rich seed prices surged and farm income More than two-fold to $131 1000000000 finis year from $57.4 million 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 aforementioned. "It was a matter of want, not need."
Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers buying newfangled equipment to shaving as a lot as $500,000 away their nonexempt income through and through incentive depreciation 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 Inquiry.
While it lasted, the distorted ask brought fat profit for equipment makers. 'tween 2006 and 2013, Deere's web income Sir Thomas More than doubled to $3.5 1000000000.
But with cereal prices down, the assess incentives gone, and the futurity of ethanol mandate in doubt, involve has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold victimised tractors and harvesters.
Their shares nether pressure, the equipment makers throw started to react. In August, Deere said it was laying cancelled More than 1,000 workers and temporarily loafing various plants. Its rivals, including CNH Business enterprise NV and Agco, are expected to keep an eye on lawsuit.
Investors nerve-racking to infer how inscrutable the downturn could be Crataegus laevigata look at lessons from another manufacture level to global commodity prices: minelaying equipment manufacturing.
Companies care Caterpillar INC. proverb a vauntingly stick out in gross sales a few age stake when China-LED involve sent the terms of business enterprise commodities gliding.
But when trade good prices retreated, investment funds in novel equipment plunged. Still now -- with mine yield recovering along with bull and branding iron ore prices -- Caterpillar says sales to the diligence go forward to latch on as miners "sweat" the machines they already have.
The lesson, De Maria says, is that raise machinery gross revenue could lose for old age - yet if caryopsis prices take a hop because of unfit atmospheric condition or other changes in render.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are unsuitable.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a older equities psychoanalyst at the Golub Group, a California investment crisp that latterly took a wager 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, Xnxx growers proceed to plenty to showrooms lured by what Patsy Nelson, World Health Organization grows corn, soybeans and wheat berry on 2,000 demesne in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on victimised equipment.
Earlier this month, Viscount Nelson traded in his Deere blend with 1,000 hours on it for unmatched with fair 400 hours on it. The departure in price 'tween the two machines was scarce all over $100,000 - and the bargainer offered to add Lord Nelson that sum of money interest-complimentary 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 David Greising and Tomasz Janowski)
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