Farm Equipment Executive Editor and Ag Equipment Intelligence Editor/Publisher Dave Kanicki will join a panel of experts to discuss their 2016 outlook for the agriculture and farm equipment industries during the Jefferies Commodity Expert Panels on April 4 in New York City.
When commodity prices fall, farm equipment purchasing is the first area in which farmers reduce spending. In their February report, Rabobank analysts Kenneth Zuckerberg and Sterling Liddell anticipate that commodity prices will stabilize over the next 5 years to near break-even levels.
As of February 9, 2016, U.S. net farm income is forecast to fall to $54.8 billion in 2016 after recently peaking in 2013, due largely to declines in commodity prices.
In Europe, the ag sector ended the year with "new-found dynamics," but Michel Denis, president and CEO, says his outlook for 2016 is tempered by less positive signals from North America.
The decline reflects the fall in gasoline consumption in the United States, infrastructural and other constraints on growth for E15 and the small size of the market for E85, with less-than-offsetting increases in U.S. ethanol exports.
Rural Lifestyle Dealer's Managing Editor Lynn Woolf shares a "deep down" look at the rural market in this interactive webinar. She presents trends from the extensive 2016 Dealer Business Trends & Outlook Report, based on forecasts from dealers across North America. [To view any of our webinar replays, you must be logged in with a free user account.]
For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2016, Titan expects revenue to be down about 32% year-over-year. Full-year fiscal 2016 revenues are expected to be down about 28% from fiscal 2015.
"2015 was a year of significant growth for Cervus. We started the year with 19 more dealerships than at the beginning of 2014, which generated an additional $245 million in revenue," said Graham Drake, president and CEO of Cervus, in the company's earnings report.
In its earnings report, Rocky Mountain Dealerships says its was able to deliver strong gains in 2015 due to bolstered demand for used equipment and product support in the company's agriculture segment.
Under 40 horsepower tractors once again had significant shipments from the manufacturer to dealerships, but field inventory levels continue to climb in February 2016.
In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Associated Equipment Distributors, we look at President Trump's tariff reduction on ag equipment, the latest dealer sales forecasts, and how high input costs are keeping farmer sentiment down.
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