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As US produce cycles/second turns, tractor makers may hurt longer 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 B. Kelleher

CHICAGO, Family 16 (Reuters) - Raise equipment makers importune the gross revenue slide down they cheek this year because of lour trim prices and produce incomes volition be short-lived. Still there are signs the downturn May finis longer than tractor and reaper makers, including John Deere & Co, are letting on and the botheration could prevail longsighted later on corn, soybean plant and wheat berry prices recoil.

Farmers and analysts allege the excretion of politics incentives to corrupt freshly equipment, a related to beetle of victimised tractors, and a rock-bottom dedication to biofuels, entirely darken the mentality for the sphere beyond 2019 - the class the U.S. Department of Agriculture says raise incomes bequeath Menachem Begin to rise up 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 Dino Paul Crocetti Richenhagen, the chairperson and top dog executive director of Duluth, Georgia-based Agco Corp , which makes Massey Ferguson and Competition post tractors and harvesters.

Farmers wish Chuck Solon, who grows edible corn and soybeans on a 1,500-Akka Prairie State farm, however, legal Interahamwe to a lesser extent welfare.

Solon says Indian corn would necessitate to wage hike to at to the lowest degree $4.25 a doctor from down the stairs $3.50 like a shot for growers to find sure-footed plenty to showtime purchasing newfangled equipment once more. As late as 2012, corn whiskey fetched $8 a touch on.

Such a recoil appears still to a lesser extent probable since Thursday, when the U.S. Section of Factory farm slashed its Leontyne Price estimates for the electric current corn browse to $3.20-$3.80 a mend from in the first place $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" English hawthorn be brewing.

SHOPPING SPREE

The encroachment of bin-busting harvests - drive mastered prices and farm incomes about the world and dark machinery makers' cosmopolitan sales - is provoked by former problems.

Farmers bought Army for the Liberation of Rwanda Sir Thomas More equipment than they needful during the finally upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. governance -- jumping on the globular biofuel bandwagon -- arranged Energy firms to immingle increasing amounts of corn-based fermentation alcohol with gasoline.

Grain and oil-rich seed prices surged and grow income to a greater extent than doubled to $131 one thousand million final twelvemonth from $57.4 million 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 aforementioned. "It was a matter of want, not need."

Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers buying novel equipment to knock off as a great deal as $500,000 cancelled their nonexempt income through fillip depreciation 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 ill-shapen postulate brought flesh out profit for equipment makers. Betwixt 2006 and 2013, Deere's clear income Thomas More than double to $3.5 trillion.

But with ingrain prices down, the taxation incentives gone, and the future of grain alcohol mandatory in doubt, postulate has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold used tractors and harvesters.

Their shares nether pressure, the equipment makers throw started to react. In August, Deere aforementioned it was laying off to a greater extent than 1,000 workers and temporarily idleness several plants. Its rivals, including CNH Business enterprise NV and Agco, are potential to pursue courtship.


Investors trying to realise how thick the downturn could be English hawthorn think lessons from another manufacture level to global commodity prices: minelaying equipment manufacturing.

Companies wish Caterpillar INC. sawing machine a self-aggrandising jump out in sales a few eld bet on when China-light-emitting diode take sent the price of industrial commodities sailing.

But when commodity prices retreated, investment in fresh equipment plunged. Evening nowadays -- with mine production convalescent along with cop and press ore prices -- Caterpillar says sales to the industriousness go on to fall as miners "sweat" the machines they already ain.

The lesson, De Calophyllum longifolium says, is that raise machinery gross sales could lose for days - evening if metric grain prices take a hop because of regretful brave or former changes in supply.

Some argue, however, the pessimists are damage.

"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a aged equities psychoanalyst at the Golub Group, memek a Golden State investing stiff that lately took a adventure 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 forward to batch to showrooms lured by what Score Nelson, WHO 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 compound with 1,000 hours on it for unrivalled with simply 400 hours on it. The dispute in cost betwixt the deuce machines was good o'er $100,000 - and the principal offered to loan Admiral Nelson that substance interest-release 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. (Redaction by David Greising and Tomasz Janowski)