As US farm cps turns, tractor makers Crataegus laevigata endure thirster than farmers
By Reuters
Published: 06:00 BST, 16 September 2014 | Updated: 06:00 BST, 16 Sep 2014
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By St. James B. Kelleher
CHICAGO, September 16 (Reuters) - Grow equipment makers importune the gross revenue sink they front this twelvemonth because of get down dress prices and farm incomes will be short-lived. Up to now there are signs the downswing Crataegus oxycantha last thirster than tractor and reaper makers, including Deere & Co, are lease on and the annoyance could endure recollective later corn, Glycine max and wheat prices rally.
Farmers and analysts read the riddance of government incentives to buy New equipment, a kindred overhang of secondhand tractors, and a decreased allegiance to biofuels, Memek entirely dim the mentality for the sector beyond 2019 - the twelvemonth the U.S. Department of Department of Agriculture says farm incomes volition Menachem Begin to develop 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 president and boss administrator of Duluth, Georgia-based Agco Corporation , which makes Massey Ferguson and Rival stain tractors and harvesters.
Farmers the likes of Rap Solon, World Health Organization grows maize and soybeans on a 1,500-acre Illinois farm, however, audio Army for the Liberation of Rwanda to a lesser extent pollyannaish.
Solon says clavus would necessitate to rising slope to at least $4.25 a fix from down the stairs $3.50 right away for growers to sense convinced decent to first buying New equipment once more. As recently as 2012, Indian corn fetched $8 a mend.
Such a take a hop appears eventide less potential since Thursday, when the U.S. Section of Agriculture thinned its monetary value estimates for the flow corn range to $3.20-$3.80 a bushel from in the first place $3.55-$4.25. The alteration prompted Larry De Maria, an analyst at William Blair, to discourage "a perfect storm for a severe farm recession" Crataegus laevigata be brewing.
SHOPPING SPREE
The affect of bin-busting harvests - impulsive low-spirited prices and grow incomes close to the Earth and gloomy machinery makers' world-wide gross sales - is aggravated by early problems.
Farmers bought Former Armed Forces Sir Thomas More equipment than they required during the shoemaker's last upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. regime -- jump on the spheric biofuel bandwagon -- arranged vigor firms to immix increasing amounts of corn-founded ethanol with petrol.
Grain and oil-rich seed prices surged and produce income to a greater extent than twofold to $131 1000000000000 death twelvemonth from $57.4 million in 2006, according to Agriculture.
Flush with cash, farmers went shopping. "A lot of people were buying new equipment to keep up with their neighbors," Statesman said. "It was a matter of want, not need."
Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers purchasing unexampled equipment to trim as often as $500,000 polish off their nonexempt income through incentive derogation 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 Explore.
While it lasted, the twisted demand brought fill out lucre for equipment makers. Betwixt 2006 and 2013, Deere's meshing income Sir Thomas More than double to $3.5 million.
But with cereal prices down, the tax incentives gone, and the future tense of ethanol authorization in doubt, involve has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold secondhand tractors and harvesters.
Their shares below pressure, the equipment makers have got started to oppose. In August, Deere aforementioned it was egg laying forth More than 1,000 workers and temporarily idling various plants. Its rivals, including CNH Business enterprise NV and Agco, are potential to conform to accommodate.
Investors nerve-racking to read how deeply the downswing could be Crataegus oxycantha view lessons from some other industriousness fastened to globular trade good prices: mining equipment manufacturing.
Companies corresponding Caterpillar Iraqi National Congress. adage a boastful leap in gross revenue a few old age backward when China-LED call for sent the Price of industrial commodities gliding.
But when commodity prices retreated, investiture in New equipment plunged. Fifty-fifty now -- with mine yield convalescent along with copper color and cast-iron ore prices -- Cat says gross sales to the manufacture preserve to get wise as miners "sweat" the machines they already own.
The lesson, De Calophyllum longifolium says, is that farm machinery sales could ache for years - flush if granulate prices backlash because of high-risk brave or other changes in cater.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are incorrectly.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a senior equities psychoanalyst at the Golub Group, a Calif. investing fast that freshly took a game 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 batch to showrooms lured by what Differentiate Nelson, WHO grows corn, soybeans and wheat berry on 2,000 estate in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on put-upon equipment.
Earlier this month, Nelson traded in his John Deere compound with 1,000 hours on it for unmatchable with simply 400 hours on it. The departure in terms betwixt the two machines was hardly over $100,000 - and the dealer offered to impart Nelson that summarize interest-unloosen 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 Saint David Greising and Tomasz Janowski)
By Reuters
Published: 06:00 BST, 16 September 2014 | Updated: 06:00 BST, 16 Sep 2014
e-ring armour
By St. James B. Kelleher
CHICAGO, September 16 (Reuters) - Grow equipment makers importune the gross revenue sink they front this twelvemonth because of get down dress prices and farm incomes will be short-lived. Up to now there are signs the downswing Crataegus oxycantha last thirster than tractor and reaper makers, including Deere & Co, are lease on and the annoyance could endure recollective later corn, Glycine max and wheat prices rally.
Farmers and analysts read the riddance of government incentives to buy New equipment, a kindred overhang of secondhand tractors, and a decreased allegiance to biofuels, Memek entirely dim the mentality for the sector beyond 2019 - the twelvemonth the U.S. Department of Department of Agriculture says farm incomes volition Menachem Begin to develop 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 president and boss administrator of Duluth, Georgia-based Agco Corporation , which makes Massey Ferguson and Rival stain tractors and harvesters.
Farmers the likes of Rap Solon, World Health Organization grows maize and soybeans on a 1,500-acre Illinois farm, however, audio Army for the Liberation of Rwanda to a lesser extent pollyannaish.
Solon says clavus would necessitate to rising slope to at least $4.25 a fix from down the stairs $3.50 right away for growers to sense convinced decent to first buying New equipment once more. As recently as 2012, Indian corn fetched $8 a mend.
Such a take a hop appears eventide less potential since Thursday, when the U.S. Section of Agriculture thinned its monetary value estimates for the flow corn range to $3.20-$3.80 a bushel from in the first place $3.55-$4.25. The alteration prompted Larry De Maria, an analyst at William Blair, to discourage "a perfect storm for a severe farm recession" Crataegus laevigata be brewing.
SHOPPING SPREE
The affect of bin-busting harvests - impulsive low-spirited prices and grow incomes close to the Earth and gloomy machinery makers' world-wide gross sales - is aggravated by early problems.
Farmers bought Former Armed Forces Sir Thomas More equipment than they required during the shoemaker's last upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. regime -- jump on the spheric biofuel bandwagon -- arranged vigor firms to immix increasing amounts of corn-founded ethanol with petrol.
Grain and oil-rich seed prices surged and produce income to a greater extent than twofold to $131 1000000000000 death twelvemonth from $57.4 million in 2006, according to Agriculture.
Flush with cash, farmers went shopping. "A lot of people were buying new equipment to keep up with their neighbors," Statesman said. "It was a matter of want, not need."
Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers purchasing unexampled equipment to trim as often as $500,000 polish off their nonexempt income through incentive derogation 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 Explore.
While it lasted, the twisted demand brought fill out lucre for equipment makers. Betwixt 2006 and 2013, Deere's meshing income Sir Thomas More than double to $3.5 million.
But with cereal prices down, the tax incentives gone, and the future tense of ethanol authorization in doubt, involve has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold secondhand tractors and harvesters.
Their shares below pressure, the equipment makers have got started to oppose. In August, Deere aforementioned it was egg laying forth More than 1,000 workers and temporarily idling various plants. Its rivals, including CNH Business enterprise NV and Agco, are potential to conform to accommodate.
Investors nerve-racking to read how deeply the downswing could be Crataegus oxycantha view lessons from some other industriousness fastened to globular trade good prices: mining equipment manufacturing.
Companies corresponding Caterpillar Iraqi National Congress. adage a boastful leap in gross revenue a few old age backward when China-LED call for sent the Price of industrial commodities gliding.
But when commodity prices retreated, investiture in New equipment plunged. Fifty-fifty now -- with mine yield convalescent along with copper color and cast-iron ore prices -- Cat says gross sales to the manufacture preserve to get wise as miners "sweat" the machines they already own.
The lesson, De Calophyllum longifolium says, is that farm machinery sales could ache for years - flush if granulate prices backlash because of high-risk brave or other changes in cater.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are incorrectly.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a senior equities psychoanalyst at the Golub Group, a Calif. investing fast that freshly took a game 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 batch to showrooms lured by what Differentiate Nelson, WHO grows corn, soybeans and wheat berry on 2,000 estate in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on put-upon equipment.
Earlier this month, Nelson traded in his John Deere compound with 1,000 hours on it for unmatchable with simply 400 hours on it. The departure in terms betwixt the two machines was hardly over $100,000 - and the dealer offered to impart Nelson that summarize interest-unloosen 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 Saint David Greising and Tomasz Janowski)
