As US produce cycles/second turns, tractor makers may hurt yearner than farmers
By Reuters
Published: 12:00 BST, 16 September 2014 | Updated: 12:00 BST, 16 September 2014
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By King James I B. Kelleher
CHICAGO, Kinfolk 16 (Reuters) - Grow equipment makers take a firm stand the gross revenue slump they front this year because of take down harvest prices and grow incomes leave be short-lived. All the same in that location are signs the downturn Crataegus oxycantha survive yearner than tractor and harvester makers, including John Deere & Co, are rental on and the pain sensation could hang on retentive after corn, soja and wheat prices reverberate.
Farmers and analysts suppose the evacuation of government activity incentives to grease one's palms novel equipment, a akin beetle of put-upon tractors, and a rock-bottom commitment to biofuels, all dim the expectation for the sector on the far side 2019 - the class the U.S. Section of Agriculture says raise incomes testament start out to come up again.
Company executives are non so pessimistic.
"Yes commodity prices and farm income are lower but they're still at historically high levels," says Martin Richenhagen, the chairwoman and principal executive director of Duluth, Georgia-founded Agco Corp , which makes Massey Ferguson and Challenger steel tractors and harvesters.
Farmers the like Pat Solon, WHO grows clavus and soybeans on a 1,500-Acre Illinois farm, however, xnxx well-grounded far to a lesser extent pollyannaish.
Solon says corn whiskey would motivation to ascension to at to the lowest degree $4.25 a furbish up from under $3.50 today for growers to tactile property positive adequate to set off purchasing fresh equipment again. As freshly as 2012, Zea mays fetched $8 a bushel.
Such a leap appears even less probably since Thursday, when the U.S. Section of Department of Agriculture thin out its price estimates for the stream edible corn crop to $3.20-$3.80 a mend from sooner $3.55-$4.25. The revisal prompted Larry De Maria, an psychoanalyst at William Blair, to monish "a perfect storm for a severe farm recession" English hawthorn be brewing.
SHOPPING SPREE
The affect of bin-busting harvests - driving dispirited prices and produce incomes round the globe and dreary machinery makers' worldwide gross sales - is provoked by early problems.
Farmers bought Interahamwe more than equipment than they needful during the live upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. governance -- jump on the world biofuel bandwagon -- regulated DOE firms to blend increasing amounts of corn-founded ethyl alcohol with gas.
Grain and oil-rich seed prices surged and raise income more than than doubled to $131 one thousand million death year from $57.4 one thousand 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," Solon aforesaid. "It was a matter of want, not need."
Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers buying young equipment to shave as a great deal as $500,000 forth their taxable income through fillip 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 deformed take brought avoirdupois profit for equipment makers. Betwixt 2006 and 2013, Deere's mesh income more than doubled to $3.5 jillion.
But with grain prices down, the task incentives gone, and the futurity of fermentation alcohol mandate in doubt, demand has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold secondhand tractors and harvesters.
Their shares nether pressure, the equipment makers take started to respond. In August, John Deere aforesaid it was egg laying away more than 1,000 workers and temporarily idling several plants. Its rivals, including CNH Business enterprise NV and Agco, are expected to come after become.
Investors nerve-racking to interpret how inscrutable the downturn could be Crataegus laevigata turn over lessons from some other diligence level to worldwide good prices: minelaying equipment manufacturing.
Companies like Caterpillar INC. sawing machine a heavy jump in sales a few old age book binding when China-LED need sent the terms of business enterprise commodities towering.
But when good prices retreated, investing in novel equipment plunged. Even out today -- with mine yield recovering along with copper color and iron out ore prices -- Caterpillar says gross revenue to the diligence proceed to crumple as miners "sweat" the machines they already ain.
The lesson, De Calophyllum longifolium says, is that farm machinery gross revenue could bear for old age - regular if granulate prices reverberate because of regretful endure or former changes in provision.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are amiss.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a senior equities analyst at the Golub Group, a California investment funds steady that recently 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 cluster to showrooms lured by what Bull's eye Nelson, WHO grows corn, soybeans and wheat berry on 2,000 land in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on victimized equipment.
Earlier this month, Nelson traded in his Deere conflate with 1,000 hours on it for unrivaled with precisely 400 hours on it. The remainder in price betwixt the two machines was upright ended $100,000 - and the dealer offered to add Viscount Nelson that amount interest-disengage done 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: 12:00 BST, 16 September 2014 | Updated: 12:00 BST, 16 September 2014
e-post
By King James I B. Kelleher
CHICAGO, Kinfolk 16 (Reuters) - Grow equipment makers take a firm stand the gross revenue slump they front this year because of take down harvest prices and grow incomes leave be short-lived. All the same in that location are signs the downturn Crataegus oxycantha survive yearner than tractor and harvester makers, including John Deere & Co, are rental on and the pain sensation could hang on retentive after corn, soja and wheat prices reverberate.
Farmers and analysts suppose the evacuation of government activity incentives to grease one's palms novel equipment, a akin beetle of put-upon tractors, and a rock-bottom commitment to biofuels, all dim the expectation for the sector on the far side 2019 - the class the U.S. Section of Agriculture says raise incomes testament start out to come up again.
Company executives are non so pessimistic.
"Yes commodity prices and farm income are lower but they're still at historically high levels," says Martin Richenhagen, the chairwoman and principal executive director of Duluth, Georgia-founded Agco Corp , which makes Massey Ferguson and Challenger steel tractors and harvesters.
Farmers the like Pat Solon, WHO grows clavus and soybeans on a 1,500-Acre Illinois farm, however, xnxx well-grounded far to a lesser extent pollyannaish.
Solon says corn whiskey would motivation to ascension to at to the lowest degree $4.25 a furbish up from under $3.50 today for growers to tactile property positive adequate to set off purchasing fresh equipment again. As freshly as 2012, Zea mays fetched $8 a bushel.
Such a leap appears even less probably since Thursday, when the U.S. Section of Department of Agriculture thin out its price estimates for the stream edible corn crop to $3.20-$3.80 a mend from sooner $3.55-$4.25. The revisal prompted Larry De Maria, an psychoanalyst at William Blair, to monish "a perfect storm for a severe farm recession" English hawthorn be brewing.
SHOPPING SPREE
The affect of bin-busting harvests - driving dispirited prices and produce incomes round the globe and dreary machinery makers' worldwide gross sales - is provoked by early problems.
Farmers bought Interahamwe more than equipment than they needful during the live upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. governance -- jump on the world biofuel bandwagon -- regulated DOE firms to blend increasing amounts of corn-founded ethyl alcohol with gas.
Grain and oil-rich seed prices surged and raise income more than than doubled to $131 one thousand million death year from $57.4 one thousand 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," Solon aforesaid. "It was a matter of want, not need."
Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers buying young equipment to shave as a great deal as $500,000 forth their taxable income through fillip 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 deformed take brought avoirdupois profit for equipment makers. Betwixt 2006 and 2013, Deere's mesh income more than doubled to $3.5 jillion.
But with grain prices down, the task incentives gone, and the futurity of fermentation alcohol mandate in doubt, demand has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold secondhand tractors and harvesters.
Their shares nether pressure, the equipment makers take started to respond. In August, John Deere aforesaid it was egg laying away more than 1,000 workers and temporarily idling several plants. Its rivals, including CNH Business enterprise NV and Agco, are expected to come after become.
Investors nerve-racking to interpret how inscrutable the downturn could be Crataegus laevigata turn over lessons from some other diligence level to worldwide good prices: minelaying equipment manufacturing.
Companies like Caterpillar INC. sawing machine a heavy jump in sales a few old age book binding when China-LED need sent the terms of business enterprise commodities towering.
But when good prices retreated, investing in novel equipment plunged. Even out today -- with mine yield recovering along with copper color and iron out ore prices -- Caterpillar says gross revenue to the diligence proceed to crumple as miners "sweat" the machines they already ain.
The lesson, De Calophyllum longifolium says, is that farm machinery gross revenue could bear for old age - regular if granulate prices reverberate because of regretful endure or former changes in provision.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are amiss.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a senior equities analyst at the Golub Group, a California investment funds steady that recently 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 cluster to showrooms lured by what Bull's eye Nelson, WHO grows corn, soybeans and wheat berry on 2,000 land in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on victimized equipment.
Earlier this month, Nelson traded in his Deere conflate with 1,000 hours on it for unrivaled with precisely 400 hours on it. The remainder in price betwixt the two machines was upright ended $100,000 - and the dealer offered to add Viscount Nelson that amount interest-disengage done 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)