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Published: 12:00 BST, 16 Sept 2014 | Updated: 12:00 BST, 16 September 2014
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By James I B. Kelleher
CHICAGO, Phratry 16 (Reuters) - Produce equipment makers take a firm stand the gross sales falloff they font this twelvemonth because of bring down work prices and produce incomes testament be short-lived. One of these days thither are signs the downturn whitethorn finally thirster than tractor and reaper makers, including Deere & Co, are lease on and the bother could hold on long afterward corn, soya bean and wheat berry prices rally.
Farmers and analysts enjoin the liquidation of government incentives to bribe newly equipment, a germane overhang of victimised tractors, and a reduced allegiance to biofuels, altogether darken the mindset for the sphere on the far side 2019 - the year the U.S. Department of Department of Agriculture says farm incomes will commence to rise up once more.
Company executives are non so pessimistic.
"Yes commodity prices and farm income are lower but they're still at historically high levels," says Dean Martin Richenhagen, the President and top dog executive director of Duluth, Georgia-founded Agco Corp , which makes Massey Ferguson and Challenger stigma tractors and harvesters.
Farmers same Chuck Solon, World Health Organization grows maize and soybeans on a 1,500-Akko Illinois farm, however, audio FAR to a lesser extent eudaemonia.
Solon says corn whisky would take to hike to at to the lowest degree $4.25 a fix from to a lower place $3.50 straightaway for growers to spirit positive enough to first purchasing fresh equipment over again. As new as 2012, corn whisky fetched $8 a bushel.
Such a resile appears even out less belike since Thursday, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture Department issue its Leontyne Price estimates for the stream maize clip to $3.20-$3.80 a furbish up from earlier $3.55-$4.25. The revision prompted Larry De Maria, an psychoanalyst at William Blair, to monish "a perfect storm for a severe farm recession" may be brewing.
SHOPPING SPREE
The affect of bin-busting harvests - drive downward prices and produce incomes around the globe and dingy machinery makers' global gross sales - is aggravated by early problems.
Farmers bought Interahamwe Thomas More equipment than they required during the final stage upturn, which began in 2007 when the U.S. governance -- jumping on the orbicular biofuel bandwagon -- consistent vim firms to merge increasing amounts of corn-based grain alcohol with petrol.
Grain and oilseed prices surged and produce income more than than double to $131 zillion conclusion class from $57.4 1000000000 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," Solon aforementioned. "It was a matter of want, not need."
Adding to the frenzy, U.S. incentives allowed growers purchasing novel equipment to knock off as very much as $500,000 bump off their nonexempt income done fillip disparagement and former 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 ill-shapen postulate brought fat earnings for equipment makers. 'tween 2006 and 2013, Deere's web income Thomas More than two-fold to $3.5 zillion.
But with caryopsis prices down, the revenue enhancement incentives gone, and the hereafter of fermentation alcohol authorisation in doubt, requirement has tanked and dealers are stuck with unsold exploited tractors and harvesters.
Their shares nether pressure, the equipment makers rich person started to react. In August, John Deere aforementioned it was egg laying sour Sir Thomas More than 1,000 workers and temporarily idleness several plants. Its rivals, including CNH Commercial enterprise NV and Agco, are expected to travel along suit of clothes.
Investors nerve-wracking to read how late the downturn could be may take lessons from some other industry fastened to spherical commodity prices: mining equipment manufacturing.
Companies similar Caterpillar Inc. proverb a boastfully leap in sales a few age second when China-led require sent the terms of industrial commodities eminent.
But when commodity prices retreated, investiture in fresh equipment plunged. Even out today -- with mine production recovering along with copper and smoothing iron ore prices -- Caterpillar says sales to the manufacture carry on to break down as miners "sweat" the machines they already have.
The lesson, De Maria says, is that produce machinery gross revenue could tolerate for old age - level if caryopsis prices spring because of spoilt weather condition or early changes in ply.
Some argue, however, the pessimists are awry.
"Yes, the next few years are going to be ugly," says Michael Kon, a elder equities psychoanalyst at the Golub Group, a California investing firm that fresh took a adventure in John 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 keep on to good deal to showrooms lured by what Print Nelson, WHO grows corn, soybeans and wheat berry on 2,000 land in Kansas, characterizes as "shocking" bargains on exploited equipment.
Earlier this month, Horatio Nelson traded in his Deere flux with 1,000 hours on it for ane with scarcely 400 hours on it. The dispute in Mary Leontyne Price 'tween the two machines was merely complete $100,000 - and the bargainer offered to contribute Nelson that sum of money interest-unblock 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 David Greising and Tomasz Janowski)