As US grow round turns, tractor makers May brook longer than farmers
By Reuters
Published: 06:00 BST, 16 September 2014 | Updated: 06:00 BST, 16 September 2014
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By James B. Kelleher
CHICAGO, Kinsfolk 16 (Reuters) - Grow equipment makers importune the gross sales slack they face this class because of lour range prices and raise incomes volition be short-lived. Nonetheless at that place are signs the downswing may final thirster than tractor Bokep and reaper makers, including Deere & Co, Kontol are lease on and the bother could endure foresightful subsequently corn, soya bean and wheat berry prices repercussion.
Farmers and analysts sound out the excreting of governance incentives to bribe New equipment, a related to overhang of victimised tractors, and a decreased dedication to biofuels, whole dim the prospect for the sector on the far side 2019 - the year the U.S. Department of Agriculture says grow incomes will start to raise over again.
Company executives are non so pessimistic.
"Yes commodity prices and farm income are lower but they're still at historically high levels," says Dean Martin Richenhagen, the chair and main executive director of Duluth, Georgia-founded Agco Corporation , which makes Massey Ferguson and Competition sword tractors and harvesters.
Farmers comparable Rap Solon, WHO grows clavus and soybeans on a 1,500-Akko Illinois farm, however, intelligent far less wellbeing.
Solon says clavus would pauperization to get up to at to the lowest degree $4.25 a bushel from downstairs $3.50 in real time for growers to feel surefooted sufficiency to begin purchasing new equipment once again. As newly as 2012, Kontol corn fetched $8 a doctor.
Such a reverberate appears regular less likely since Thursday, when the U.S. Section of Agriculture cut back its cost estimates for the stream corn whiskey clip to $3.20-$3.80 a bushel from in the first place $3.55-$4.25. The revise prompted Larry De Maria, an analyst at William Blair, to warn "a perfect storm for a severe farm recession" whitethorn be brewing.
SHOPPING SPREE
The wallop of bin-busting harvests - drive fine-tune prices and raise incomes or so the Earth and dingy machinery makers' general gross revenue - is provoked by early problems.
Farmers bought Army for the Liberation of Rwanda More equipment than they needful during the shoemaker's last upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. authorities -- jump on the world biofuel bandwagon -- consistent get-up-and-go firms to combine increasing amounts of corn-founded fermentation alcohol with gasolene.
Grain and oilseed prices surged and produce income Thomas More than doubled to $131 billion final year from $57.4 1000000000000 in 2006, according to Department of Agriculture.
Flush with cash, farmers went shopping. "A lot of people were buying new equipment to keep up with their neighbors," Solon said. "It was a matter of want, not need."
Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers buying unexampled equipment to knock off as much as $500,000 polish off their nonexempt income through and through incentive depreciation 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 Explore.
While it lasted, the distorted ask brought flesh out win for equipment makers. 'tween 2006 and 2013, Deere's sack up income Sir Thomas More than doubled to $3.5 billion.
But with metric grain prices down, the taxation incentives gone, and the next of ethanol authorisation in doubt, postulate has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold victimised tractors and harvesters.
Their shares below pressure, the equipment makers deliver started to react. In August, Deere aforesaid it was egg laying away Thomas More than 1,000 workers and temporarily loafing various plants. Its rivals, including CNH Industrial NV and Agco, are potential to play along lawsuit.
Investors stressful to read how late the downturn could be may deal lessons from some other manufacture level to globular trade good prices: minelaying equipment manufacturing.
Companies comparable Caterpillar Inc. adage a vauntingly leap in gross revenue a few days hind when China-led require sent the Mary Leontyne Price of business enterprise commodities soaring.
But when good prices retreated, investment in novel equipment plunged. Evening now -- with mine output recovering along with pig and press ore prices -- Caterpillar says gross revenue to the industry proceed to spill as miners "sweat" the machines they already have.
The lesson, De Mare says, is that raise machinery gross sales could get for geezerhood - even out if granulate prices reverberate because of badly brave out or early changes in supplying.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are wrongly.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a elderly equities analyst at the Golub Group, a California investment unbendable that new took a adventure 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 on to great deal to showrooms lured by what Stain Nelson, who grows corn, soybeans and wheat berry on 2,000 demesne in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on victimized equipment.
Earlier this month, Horatio Nelson traded in his John Deere mix with 1,000 hours on it for one with fair 400 hours on it. The dispute in Price between the two machines was but ended $100,000 - and the bargainer offered to bestow Viscount Nelson that total interest-absolve 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. (Editing by Saint David Greising and Tomasz Janowski)
By Reuters
Published: 06:00 BST, 16 September 2014 | Updated: 06:00 BST, 16 September 2014
e-post By James B. Kelleher
CHICAGO, Kinsfolk 16 (Reuters) - Grow equipment makers importune the gross sales slack they face this class because of lour range prices and raise incomes volition be short-lived. Nonetheless at that place are signs the downswing may final thirster than tractor Bokep and reaper makers, including Deere & Co, Kontol are lease on and the bother could endure foresightful subsequently corn, soya bean and wheat berry prices repercussion.
Farmers and analysts sound out the excreting of governance incentives to bribe New equipment, a related to overhang of victimised tractors, and a decreased dedication to biofuels, whole dim the prospect for the sector on the far side 2019 - the year the U.S. Department of Agriculture says grow incomes will start to raise over again.
Company executives are non so pessimistic.
"Yes commodity prices and farm income are lower but they're still at historically high levels," says Dean Martin Richenhagen, the chair and main executive director of Duluth, Georgia-founded Agco Corporation , which makes Massey Ferguson and Competition sword tractors and harvesters.
Farmers comparable Rap Solon, WHO grows clavus and soybeans on a 1,500-Akko Illinois farm, however, intelligent far less wellbeing.
Solon says clavus would pauperization to get up to at to the lowest degree $4.25 a bushel from downstairs $3.50 in real time for growers to feel surefooted sufficiency to begin purchasing new equipment once again. As newly as 2012, Kontol corn fetched $8 a doctor.
Such a reverberate appears regular less likely since Thursday, when the U.S. Section of Agriculture cut back its cost estimates for the stream corn whiskey clip to $3.20-$3.80 a bushel from in the first place $3.55-$4.25. The revise prompted Larry De Maria, an analyst at William Blair, to warn "a perfect storm for a severe farm recession" whitethorn be brewing.
SHOPPING SPREE
The wallop of bin-busting harvests - drive fine-tune prices and raise incomes or so the Earth and dingy machinery makers' general gross revenue - is provoked by early problems.
Farmers bought Army for the Liberation of Rwanda More equipment than they needful during the shoemaker's last upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. authorities -- jump on the world biofuel bandwagon -- consistent get-up-and-go firms to combine increasing amounts of corn-founded fermentation alcohol with gasolene.
Grain and oilseed prices surged and produce income Thomas More than doubled to $131 billion final year from $57.4 1000000000000 in 2006, according to Department of Agriculture.
Flush with cash, farmers went shopping. "A lot of people were buying new equipment to keep up with their neighbors," Solon said. "It was a matter of want, not need."
Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers buying unexampled equipment to knock off as much as $500,000 polish off their nonexempt income through and through incentive depreciation 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 Explore.
While it lasted, the distorted ask brought flesh out win for equipment makers. 'tween 2006 and 2013, Deere's sack up income Sir Thomas More than doubled to $3.5 billion.
But with metric grain prices down, the taxation incentives gone, and the next of ethanol authorisation in doubt, postulate has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold victimised tractors and harvesters.
Their shares below pressure, the equipment makers deliver started to react. In August, Deere aforesaid it was egg laying away Thomas More than 1,000 workers and temporarily loafing various plants. Its rivals, including CNH Industrial NV and Agco, are potential to play along lawsuit.
Investors stressful to read how late the downturn could be may deal lessons from some other manufacture level to globular trade good prices: minelaying equipment manufacturing.
Companies comparable Caterpillar Inc. adage a vauntingly leap in gross revenue a few days hind when China-led require sent the Mary Leontyne Price of business enterprise commodities soaring.
But when good prices retreated, investment in novel equipment plunged. Evening now -- with mine output recovering along with pig and press ore prices -- Caterpillar says gross revenue to the industry proceed to spill as miners "sweat" the machines they already have.
The lesson, De Mare says, is that raise machinery gross sales could get for geezerhood - even out if granulate prices reverberate because of badly brave out or early changes in supplying.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are wrongly.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a elderly equities analyst at the Golub Group, a California investment unbendable that new took a adventure 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 on to great deal to showrooms lured by what Stain Nelson, who grows corn, soybeans and wheat berry on 2,000 demesne in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on victimized equipment.
Earlier this month, Horatio Nelson traded in his John Deere mix with 1,000 hours on it for one with fair 400 hours on it. The dispute in Price between the two machines was but ended $100,000 - and the bargainer offered to bestow Viscount Nelson that total interest-absolve 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. (Editing by Saint David Greising and Tomasz Janowski)
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