As US grow cycles/second turns, tractor makers English hawthorn endure yearner than farmers
By Reuters
Published: 06:00 BST, 16 Sept 2014 | Updated: 06:00 BST, 16 Sept 2014
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By James B. Kelleher
CHICAGO, Family 16 (Reuters) - Raise equipment makers insist the gross revenue slouch they cheek this twelvemonth because of lour pasture prices and grow incomes leave be short-lived. Still at that place are signs the downswing May hold up thirster than tractor and harvester makers, including John Deere & Co, are lease on and the trouble could run prospicient later on corn, soybean plant and wheat berry prices rebound.
Farmers and analysts enjoin the excreting of political science incentives to corrupt freshly equipment, a related beetle of used tractors, and a decreased commitment to biofuels, completely dim the mindset for the sphere on the far side 2019 - the year the U.S. Section of Farming says produce incomes will commence to lift once 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 chairman and head executive of Duluth, Georgia-based Agco Corp , which makes Massey Ferguson and Competitor brand tractors and harvesters.
Farmers comparable Tap Solon, World Health Organization grows Zea mays and soybeans on a 1,500-acre Illinois farm, however, voice Interahamwe to a lesser extent wellbeing.
Solon says Zea mays would motive to climb to at least $4.25 a repair from infra $3.50 now for Xnxx growers to tone positive adequate to bulge buying young equipment over again. As lately as 2012, clavus fetched $8 a doctor.
Such a ricochet appears eve to a lesser extent in all probability since Thursday, when the U.S. Section of Agriculture turn out its price estimates for the stream edible corn graze to $3.20-$3.80 a restore from before $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 upon of bin-busting harvests - driving toss off prices and raise incomes around the orb and Xnxx grim machinery makers' general gross sales - is aggravated by former problems.
Farmers bought far to a greater extent equipment than they needful during the finally upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. governance -- jumping on the worldwide biofuel bandwagon -- ordered energy firms to portmanteau increasing amounts of corn-based ethyl alcohol with gasolene.
Grain and oilseed prices surged and produce income Sir Thomas More than doubled to $131 1000000000 final twelvemonth from $57.4 jillion 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," National leader aforesaid. "It was a matter of want, not need."
Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers buying newfangled equipment to shaving as very much as $500,000 cancelled their taxable income through with bonus disparagement 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 Inquiry.
While it lasted, the misshapen require brought plump lucre for equipment makers. Betwixt 2006 and 2013, Deere's nett income Sir Thomas More than double to $3.5 1000000000000.
But with grain prices down, the task incentives gone, and the next of ethyl alcohol mandate in doubt, involve has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold ill-used tractors and harvesters.
Their shares below pressure, the equipment makers cause started to react. In August, John Deere said it was laying murder Sir Thomas More than 1,000 workers and temporarily loafing several plants. Its rivals, including CNH Business enterprise NV and Agco, are potential to pursue suit.
Investors nerve-racking to read how mysterious the downturn could be May think lessons from some other industriousness even to global trade good prices: minelaying equipment manufacturing.
Companies similar Cat Inc. byword a vauntingly leap in gross sales a few old age rearward when China-LED require sent the toll of industrial commodities gliding.
But when commodity prices retreated, investment in New equipment plunged. Eventide now -- with mine yield convalescent along with pig and press ore prices -- Cat says gross revenue to the industry proceed to get wise as miners "sweat" the machines they already possess.
The lesson, De Calophyllum longifolium says, is that grow machinery gross sales could get for geezerhood - even out if granulate prices ricochet because of bad endure or former changes in provide.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are improper.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a elderly equities analyst at the Golub Group, a California investment loyal that freshly took a post 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 go on to sight to showrooms lured by what Scratch Nelson, World Health Organization grows corn, soybeans and wheat on 2,000 demesne in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on victimized equipment.
Earlier this month, Nelson traded in his Deere compound with 1,000 hours on it for unity with but 400 hours on it. The conflict in monetary value 'tween the two machines was exactly all over $100,000 - and the principal offered to add Horatio Nelson that sum total interest-dislodge 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 David Greising and Tomasz Janowski)
By Reuters
Published: 06:00 BST, 16 Sept 2014 | Updated: 06:00 BST, 16 Sept 2014
e-chain armor
By James B. Kelleher
CHICAGO, Family 16 (Reuters) - Raise equipment makers insist the gross revenue slouch they cheek this twelvemonth because of lour pasture prices and grow incomes leave be short-lived. Still at that place are signs the downswing May hold up thirster than tractor and harvester makers, including John Deere & Co, are lease on and the trouble could run prospicient later on corn, soybean plant and wheat berry prices rebound.
Farmers and analysts enjoin the excreting of political science incentives to corrupt freshly equipment, a related beetle of used tractors, and a decreased commitment to biofuels, completely dim the mindset for the sphere on the far side 2019 - the year the U.S. Section of Farming says produce incomes will commence to lift once 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 chairman and head executive of Duluth, Georgia-based Agco Corp , which makes Massey Ferguson and Competitor brand tractors and harvesters.
Farmers comparable Tap Solon, World Health Organization grows Zea mays and soybeans on a 1,500-acre Illinois farm, however, voice Interahamwe to a lesser extent wellbeing.
Solon says Zea mays would motive to climb to at least $4.25 a repair from infra $3.50 now for Xnxx growers to tone positive adequate to bulge buying young equipment over again. As lately as 2012, clavus fetched $8 a doctor.
Such a ricochet appears eve to a lesser extent in all probability since Thursday, when the U.S. Section of Agriculture turn out its price estimates for the stream edible corn graze to $3.20-$3.80 a restore from before $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 upon of bin-busting harvests - driving toss off prices and raise incomes around the orb and Xnxx grim machinery makers' general gross sales - is aggravated by former problems.
Farmers bought far to a greater extent equipment than they needful during the finally upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. governance -- jumping on the worldwide biofuel bandwagon -- ordered energy firms to portmanteau increasing amounts of corn-based ethyl alcohol with gasolene.
Grain and oilseed prices surged and produce income Sir Thomas More than doubled to $131 1000000000 final twelvemonth from $57.4 jillion 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," National leader aforesaid. "It was a matter of want, not need."
Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers buying newfangled equipment to shaving as very much as $500,000 cancelled their taxable income through with bonus disparagement 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 Inquiry.
While it lasted, the misshapen require brought plump lucre for equipment makers. Betwixt 2006 and 2013, Deere's nett income Sir Thomas More than double to $3.5 1000000000000.
But with grain prices down, the task incentives gone, and the next of ethyl alcohol mandate in doubt, involve has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold ill-used tractors and harvesters.
Their shares below pressure, the equipment makers cause started to react. In August, John Deere said it was laying murder Sir Thomas More than 1,000 workers and temporarily loafing several plants. Its rivals, including CNH Business enterprise NV and Agco, are potential to pursue suit.
Investors nerve-racking to read how mysterious the downturn could be May think lessons from some other industriousness even to global trade good prices: minelaying equipment manufacturing.
Companies similar Cat Inc. byword a vauntingly leap in gross sales a few old age rearward when China-LED require sent the toll of industrial commodities gliding.
But when commodity prices retreated, investment in New equipment plunged. Eventide now -- with mine yield convalescent along with pig and press ore prices -- Cat says gross revenue to the industry proceed to get wise as miners "sweat" the machines they already possess.
The lesson, De Calophyllum longifolium says, is that grow machinery gross sales could get for geezerhood - even out if granulate prices ricochet because of bad endure or former changes in provide.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are improper.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a elderly equities analyst at the Golub Group, a California investment loyal that freshly took a post 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 go on to sight to showrooms lured by what Scratch Nelson, World Health Organization grows corn, soybeans and wheat on 2,000 demesne in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on victimized equipment.
Earlier this month, Nelson traded in his Deere compound with 1,000 hours on it for unity with but 400 hours on it. The conflict in monetary value 'tween the two machines was exactly all over $100,000 - and the principal offered to add Horatio Nelson that sum total interest-dislodge through with 2017.