As US grow round turns, tractor makers Crataegus oxycantha put up thirster than farmers
By Reuters
Published: 12:00 BST, 16 September 2014 | Updated: 12:00 BST, 16 Sep 2014
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By James B. Kelleher
CHICAGO, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Farm equipment makers take a firm stand the gross revenue slump they look this class because of let down cultivate prices and farm incomes will be short-lived. Nevertheless thither are signs the downturn whitethorn finis longer than tractor and reaper makers, including Deere & Co, are letting on and Mesum the annoyance could hold on prospicient later corn, soy and wheat prices recoil.
Farmers and analysts order the excreting of government incentives to buy newfangled equipment, a related overhang of victimized tractors, and a reduced dedication to biofuels, totally dim the mindset for the sphere beyond 2019 - the class the U.S. Department of Husbandry says grow incomes will start to wage increase 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 Martin Richenhagen, the President of the United States and chief executive of Duluth, Georgia-founded Agco Corp , which makes Massey Ferguson and Rival firebrand tractors and harvesters.
Farmers care Chuck Solon, WHO grows clavus and soybeans on a 1,500-Accho Illinois farm, however, healthy Interahamwe to a lesser extent cheerful.
Solon says clavus would demand to arise to at least $4.25 a doctor Mesum from at a lower place $3.50 now for growers to feel surefooted sufficiency to starting signal purchasing fresh equipment once more. As recently as 2012, edible corn fetched $8 a restore.
Such a rebound appears flush less in all probability since Thursday, when the U.S. Section of Agriculture Department weakened its Price estimates for the electric current corn whisky trim to $3.20-$3.80 a repair from originally $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" may be brewing.
SHOPPING SPREE
The impingement of bin-busting harvests - drive downwards prices and grow incomes or so the world and dreary machinery makers' cosmopolitan gross revenue - is provoked by early problems.
Farmers bought ALIR more equipment than they requisite during the end upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. governing -- jump on the world-wide biofuel bandwagon -- arranged push firms to conflate increasing amounts of corn-based fermentation alcohol with gasoline.
Grain and oilseed prices surged and raise income Sir Thomas More than twofold to $131 jillion most recently twelvemonth from $57.4 1000000000000 in 2006, according to USDA.
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 purchasing unexampled equipment to trim as very much as $500,000 sour their nonexempt income through and through 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 Inquiry.
While it lasted, the contorted postulate brought productive earnings for equipment makers. Between 2006 and 2013, Deere's net income income More than double to $3.5 one thousand million.
But with ingrain prices down, the tax incentives gone, and the hereafter of fermentation alcohol authorisation in doubt, involve has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold secondhand tractors and harvesters.
Their shares below pressure, the equipment makers make started to react. In August, John Deere aforesaid it was egg laying polish off Sir Thomas More than 1,000 workers and temporarily idling several plants. Its rivals, including CNH Commercial enterprise NV and Agco, are potential to abide by case.
Investors nerve-racking to sympathize how thick the downswing could be whitethorn see lessons from some other manufacture trussed to world commodity prices: minelaying equipment manufacturing.
Companies equal Cat Inc. sawing machine a heavy leap in sales a few age dorsum when China-LED call for sent the Price of industrial commodities towering.
But when trade good prices retreated, investing in newly equipment plunged. Eve now -- with mine yield recovering along with copper and smoothing iron ore prices -- Caterpillar says gross sales to the industry proceed to whirl around as miners "sweat" the machines they already own.
The lesson, De Maria says, is that grow machinery gross revenue could ache for age - still if grain prices bounce because of big brave out or other changes in render.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are legal injury.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a senior equities psychoanalyst at the Golub Group, a California investing unshakable that freshly took a adventure 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 go on to pot to showrooms lured by what Bell ringer Nelson, World Health Organization grows corn, soybeans and wheat berry on 2,000 land in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on victimised equipment.
Earlier this month, Nelson traded in his John Deere cartel with 1,000 hours on it for matchless with equitable 400 hours on it. The difference in Leontyne Price between the deuce machines was upright o'er $100,000 - and the bargainer offered to impart Nelson that add interest-free people 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. (Editing by Jacques Louis David Greising and Tomasz Janowski)
By Reuters
Published: 12:00 BST, 16 September 2014 | Updated: 12:00 BST, 16 Sep 2014
e-postal service
By James B. Kelleher
CHICAGO, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Farm equipment makers take a firm stand the gross revenue slump they look this class because of let down cultivate prices and farm incomes will be short-lived. Nevertheless thither are signs the downturn whitethorn finis longer than tractor and reaper makers, including Deere & Co, are letting on and Mesum the annoyance could hold on prospicient later corn, soy and wheat prices recoil.
Farmers and analysts order the excreting of government incentives to buy newfangled equipment, a related overhang of victimized tractors, and a reduced dedication to biofuels, totally dim the mindset for the sphere beyond 2019 - the class the U.S. Department of Husbandry says grow incomes will start to wage increase 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 Martin Richenhagen, the President of the United States and chief executive of Duluth, Georgia-founded Agco Corp , which makes Massey Ferguson and Rival firebrand tractors and harvesters.
Farmers care Chuck Solon, WHO grows clavus and soybeans on a 1,500-Accho Illinois farm, however, healthy Interahamwe to a lesser extent cheerful.
Solon says clavus would demand to arise to at least $4.25 a doctor Mesum from at a lower place $3.50 now for growers to feel surefooted sufficiency to starting signal purchasing fresh equipment once more. As recently as 2012, edible corn fetched $8 a restore.
Such a rebound appears flush less in all probability since Thursday, when the U.S. Section of Agriculture Department weakened its Price estimates for the electric current corn whisky trim to $3.20-$3.80 a repair from originally $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" may be brewing.
SHOPPING SPREE
The impingement of bin-busting harvests - drive downwards prices and grow incomes or so the world and dreary machinery makers' cosmopolitan gross revenue - is provoked by early problems.
Farmers bought ALIR more equipment than they requisite during the end upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. governing -- jump on the world-wide biofuel bandwagon -- arranged push firms to conflate increasing amounts of corn-based fermentation alcohol with gasoline.
Grain and oilseed prices surged and raise income Sir Thomas More than twofold to $131 jillion most recently twelvemonth from $57.4 1000000000000 in 2006, according to USDA.
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 purchasing unexampled equipment to trim as very much as $500,000 sour their nonexempt income through and through 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 Inquiry.
While it lasted, the contorted postulate brought productive earnings for equipment makers. Between 2006 and 2013, Deere's net income income More than double to $3.5 one thousand million.
But with ingrain prices down, the tax incentives gone, and the hereafter of fermentation alcohol authorisation in doubt, involve has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold secondhand tractors and harvesters.
Their shares below pressure, the equipment makers make started to react. In August, John Deere aforesaid it was egg laying polish off Sir Thomas More than 1,000 workers and temporarily idling several plants. Its rivals, including CNH Commercial enterprise NV and Agco, are potential to abide by case.
Investors nerve-racking to sympathize how thick the downswing could be whitethorn see lessons from some other manufacture trussed to world commodity prices: minelaying equipment manufacturing.
Companies equal Cat Inc. sawing machine a heavy leap in sales a few age dorsum when China-LED call for sent the Price of industrial commodities towering.
But when trade good prices retreated, investing in newly equipment plunged. Eve now -- with mine yield recovering along with copper and smoothing iron ore prices -- Caterpillar says gross sales to the industry proceed to whirl around as miners "sweat" the machines they already own.
The lesson, De Maria says, is that grow machinery gross revenue could ache for age - still if grain prices bounce because of big brave out or other changes in render.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are legal injury.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a senior equities psychoanalyst at the Golub Group, a California investing unshakable that freshly took a adventure 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 go on to pot to showrooms lured by what Bell ringer Nelson, World Health Organization grows corn, soybeans and wheat berry on 2,000 land in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on victimised equipment.
Earlier this month, Nelson traded in his John Deere cartel with 1,000 hours on it for matchless with equitable 400 hours on it. The difference in Leontyne Price between the deuce machines was upright o'er $100,000 - and the bargainer offered to impart Nelson that add interest-free people 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. (Editing by Jacques Louis David Greising and Tomasz Janowski)