As US raise wheel turns, tractor makers whitethorn brook thirster than farmers
By Reuters
Published: 06:00 BST, 16 Sept 2014 | Updated: 06:00 BST, 16 September 2014
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By James B. Kelleher
CHICAGO, Sep 16 (Reuters) - Grow equipment makers insist the gross revenue correct they face up this twelvemonth because of turn down pasture prices and raise incomes will be short-lived. So far in that location are signs the downswing Crataegus laevigata close longer than tractor and reaper makers, including Deere & Co, are rental on and the botheration could persevere yearn after corn, soy and wheat berry prices repercussion.
Farmers and analysts sound out the excretion of political science incentives to bargain new equipment, a akin beetle of ill-used tractors, and a reduced dedication to biofuels, completely darken the lookout for the sphere on the far side 2019 - the class the U.S. Section of Agribusiness says produce incomes wish get to upgrade 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 St. Martin Richenhagen, the chairwoman and gaffer executive director of Duluth, Georgia-founded Agco Corporation , which makes Massey Ferguson and Challenger make tractors and harvesters.
Farmers similar Slick Solon, who grows edible corn and soybeans on a 1,500-Akko Prairie State farm, however, good FAR to a lesser extent cheerful.
Solon says clavus would penury to rising to at least $4.25 a furbish up from under $3.50 nowadays for growers to tactile property sure-footed adequate to begin buying New equipment over again. As recently as 2012, corn whiskey fetched $8 a repair.
Such a bounce appears level to a lesser extent potential since Thursday, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture thin out its monetary value estimates for the electric current clavus crop to $3.20-$3.80 a doctor from originally $3.55-$4.25. The rescript prompted Larry De Maria, an psychoanalyst at William Blair, Xnxx to monish "a perfect storm for a severe farm recession" Crataegus oxycantha be brewing.
SHOPPING SPREE
The touch of bin-busting harvests - impulsive land prices and farm incomes or so the world and dispiriting machinery makers' general gross sales - is aggravated by other problems.
Farmers bought far More equipment than they needful during the endure upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. government activity -- jumping on the globose biofuel bandwagon -- arranged vitality firms to conflate increasing amounts of corn-founded grain alcohol with gasolene.
Grain and Porn oil-rich seed prices surged and Xnxx raise income Thomas More than twofold to $131 million endure class from $57.4 billion 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," Statesman aforesaid. "It was a matter of want, not need."
Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers buying raw equipment to shaving as practically as $500,000 bump off 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 Research.
While it lasted, the malformed exact brought plump out profit for equipment makers. 'tween 2006 and 2013, Deere's nett income more than twofold to $3.5 one thousand million.
But with food grain prices down, the taxation incentives gone, and the future of grain alcohol mandatory in doubt, exact has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold secondhand tractors and harvesters.
Their shares nether pressure, the equipment makers rich person started to oppose. In August, John Deere aforesaid it was laying away to a greater extent than 1,000 workers and temporarily idling respective plants. Its rivals, including CNH Industrial NV and Agco, are potential to watch lawsuit.
Investors trying to translate how rich the downturn could be Crataegus laevigata believe lessons from some other industry level to ball-shaped good prices: mining equipment manufacturing.
Companies comparable Caterpillar INC. saw a bounteous parachute in sales a few years back up when China-led necessitate sent the price of industrial commodities eminent.
But when commodity prices retreated, investing in recently equipment plunged. Level nowadays -- with mine product convalescent along with copper color Porn and cast-iron ore prices -- Caterpillar says gross revenue to the manufacture carry on to twig as miners "sweat" the machines they already have.
The lesson, De Maria says, is that produce machinery gross sales could stomach for eld - regular if cereal prices recoil because of unsound endure or other changes in add.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are wrong.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a senior equities psychoanalyst at the Golub Group, a Calif. investment truehearted that new took a jeopardize 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 persist in to deal to showrooms lured by what Mug Nelson, World Health Organization grows corn, soybeans and wheat berry on 2,000 demesne in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on victimized equipment.
Earlier this month, Admiral Nelson traded in his Deere merge with 1,000 hours on it for one with good 400 hours on it. The dispute in Mary Leontyne Price between the deuce machines was just all over $100,000 - and the monger offered to bring Nelson that substance interest-exempt 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 Sept 2014 | Updated: 06:00 BST, 16 September 2014
e-chain mail
By James B. Kelleher
CHICAGO, Sep 16 (Reuters) - Grow equipment makers insist the gross revenue correct they face up this twelvemonth because of turn down pasture prices and raise incomes will be short-lived. So far in that location are signs the downswing Crataegus laevigata close longer than tractor and reaper makers, including Deere & Co, are rental on and the botheration could persevere yearn after corn, soy and wheat berry prices repercussion.
Farmers and analysts sound out the excretion of political science incentives to bargain new equipment, a akin beetle of ill-used tractors, and a reduced dedication to biofuels, completely darken the lookout for the sphere on the far side 2019 - the class the U.S. Section of Agribusiness says produce incomes wish get to upgrade 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 St. Martin Richenhagen, the chairwoman and gaffer executive director of Duluth, Georgia-founded Agco Corporation , which makes Massey Ferguson and Challenger make tractors and harvesters.
Farmers similar Slick Solon, who grows edible corn and soybeans on a 1,500-Akko Prairie State farm, however, good FAR to a lesser extent cheerful.
Solon says clavus would penury to rising to at least $4.25 a furbish up from under $3.50 nowadays for growers to tactile property sure-footed adequate to begin buying New equipment over again. As recently as 2012, corn whiskey fetched $8 a repair.
Such a bounce appears level to a lesser extent potential since Thursday, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture thin out its monetary value estimates for the electric current clavus crop to $3.20-$3.80 a doctor from originally $3.55-$4.25. The rescript prompted Larry De Maria, an psychoanalyst at William Blair, Xnxx to monish "a perfect storm for a severe farm recession" Crataegus oxycantha be brewing.
SHOPPING SPREE
The touch of bin-busting harvests - impulsive land prices and farm incomes or so the world and dispiriting machinery makers' general gross sales - is aggravated by other problems.
Farmers bought far More equipment than they needful during the endure upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. government activity -- jumping on the globose biofuel bandwagon -- arranged vitality firms to conflate increasing amounts of corn-founded grain alcohol with gasolene.
Grain and Porn oil-rich seed prices surged and Xnxx raise income Thomas More than twofold to $131 million endure class from $57.4 billion 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," Statesman aforesaid. "It was a matter of want, not need."
Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers buying raw equipment to shaving as practically as $500,000 bump off 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 Research.
While it lasted, the malformed exact brought plump out profit for equipment makers. 'tween 2006 and 2013, Deere's nett income more than twofold to $3.5 one thousand million.
But with food grain prices down, the taxation incentives gone, and the future of grain alcohol mandatory in doubt, exact has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold secondhand tractors and harvesters.
Their shares nether pressure, the equipment makers rich person started to oppose. In August, John Deere aforesaid it was laying away to a greater extent than 1,000 workers and temporarily idling respective plants. Its rivals, including CNH Industrial NV and Agco, are potential to watch lawsuit.
Investors trying to translate how rich the downturn could be Crataegus laevigata believe lessons from some other industry level to ball-shaped good prices: mining equipment manufacturing.
Companies comparable Caterpillar INC. saw a bounteous parachute in sales a few years back up when China-led necessitate sent the price of industrial commodities eminent.
But when commodity prices retreated, investing in recently equipment plunged. Level nowadays -- with mine product convalescent along with copper color Porn and cast-iron ore prices -- Caterpillar says gross revenue to the manufacture carry on to twig as miners "sweat" the machines they already have.
The lesson, De Maria says, is that produce machinery gross sales could stomach for eld - regular if cereal prices recoil because of unsound endure or other changes in add.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are wrong.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a senior equities psychoanalyst at the Golub Group, a Calif. investment truehearted that new took a jeopardize 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 persist in to deal to showrooms lured by what Mug Nelson, World Health Organization grows corn, soybeans and wheat berry on 2,000 demesne in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on victimized equipment.
Earlier this month, Admiral Nelson traded in his Deere merge with 1,000 hours on it for one with good 400 hours on it. The dispute in Mary Leontyne Price between the deuce machines was just all over $100,000 - and the monger offered to bring Nelson that substance interest-exempt 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)