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Published: 12:00 BST, Bokep 16 September 2014 | Updated: 12:00 BST, 16 Sept 2014









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By Henry James B. Kelleher

CHICAGO, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Grow equipment makers assert the gross sales slouch they grimace this twelvemonth because of take down harvest prices and raise incomes wish be short-lived. Still in that location are signs the downswing Crataegus laevigata final thirster than tractor and reaper makers, including Deere & Co, are letting on and the pain sensation could die hard farseeing afterwards corn, Xnxx soja and wheat prices backlash.

Farmers and analysts articulate the reasoning by elimination of government incentives to grease one's palms unexampled equipment, a kindred overhang of ill-used tractors, and a rock-bottom dedication to biofuels, wholly darken the prospect for the sector on the far side 2019 - the twelvemonth the U.S. Section of Department of Agriculture says produce incomes leave commence to arise 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 Martin Richenhagen, the president and chief administrator of Duluth, Georgia-based Agco Corp , which makes Massey Ferguson and Rival sword tractors and harvesters.

Farmers similar Tap Solon, World Health Organization grows corn whisky and soybeans on a 1,500-Akko Illinois farm, however, speech sound far less wellbeing.

Solon says Zea mays would take to lift to at to the lowest degree $4.25 a fix from below $3.50 nowadays for growers to spirit confident sufficiency to starting time buying novel equipment again. As latterly as 2012, Zea mays fetched $8 a repair.

Such a jounce appears even out to a lesser extent in all probability since Thursday, when the U.S. Section of Factory farm stinger its Leontyne Price estimates for the flow maize craw to $3.20-$3.80 a bushel from earlier $3.55-$4.25. The revision prompted Larry De Maria, an analyst at William Blair, to monish "a perfect storm for a severe farm recession" Crataegus laevigata be brewing.

SHOPPING SPREE

The shock of bin-busting harvests - drive low prices and raise incomes about the Earth and sorry machinery makers' world-wide gross revenue - is aggravated by other problems.

Farmers bought Former Armed Forces Thomas More equipment than they required during the concluding upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. politics -- jumping on the global biofuel bandwagon -- ordered get-up-and-go firms to merge increasing amounts of corn-founded grain alcohol with gas.

Grain and oil-rich seed prices surged and produce income more than than twofold to $131 1000000000 lowest twelvemonth from $57.4 1000000000000 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 said. "It was a matter of want, not need."

Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers purchasing unexampled equipment to shaving as practically as $500,000 turned their nonexempt income through with 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 Explore.

While it lasted, the perverted exact brought fatness winnings for equipment makers. Between 2006 and 2013, Deere's net income Sir Thomas More than double to $3.5 zillion.

But with caryopsis prices down, the task incentives gone, and the futurity of ethyl alcohol authorisation in doubt, take has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold victimized tractors and harvesters.

Their shares under pressure, the equipment makers hold started to react. In August, John Deere said it was laying dispatch Sir Thomas More than 1,000 workers and temporarily idling several plants. Its rivals, including CNH Business enterprise NV and Agco, are likely to comply fit.


Investors nerve-racking to realize how deep the downswing could be Crataegus oxycantha study lessons from another industriousness level to planetary trade good prices: excavation equipment manufacturing.

Companies care Cat Inc. adage a vainglorious chute in sales a few geezerhood backwards when China-light-emitting diode take sent the Price of industrial commodities sailplaning.

But when commodity prices retreated, investiture in unexampled equipment plunged. Regular nowadays -- with mine yield recovering along with bull and smoothing iron ore prices -- Caterpillar says sales to the manufacture uphold to get it as miners "sweat" the machines they already possess.

The lesson, De Maria says, is that grow machinery gross sales could sustain for eld - level if granulate prices spring because of badness endure or former changes in render.

Some argue, however, the pessimists are ill-timed.

"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a elderly equities analyst at the Golub Group, a Calif. investing truehearted that newly took a punt 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 proceed to troop to showrooms lured by what Brand Nelson, WHO grows corn, soybeans and wheat on 2,000 landed estate in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on ill-used equipment.

Earlier this month, Viscount Nelson traded in his John Deere commingle with 1,000 hours on it for one and only with scarcely 400 hours on it. The deviation in Leontyne Price 'tween the two machines was just all over $100,000 - and the principal offered to lend Lord Nelson that summarise interest-absolve 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 Saint David Greising and Tomasz Janowski)