Agricultural machinery: balance from month to month 2008

Well starts the year with a rise in the inscriptions of machinery. Productions in marking time. Still the plague of voles in Castile and León, Spain. They impose the professional empowerment for the handling of plant protection: beginning to be noted the new directive for sustainable use of pesticides.

The Fima focuses beating records of figures. Pessimism in the sector by the worst drought in years. Approval of RD 228/2008, the 'Plan Renove' for the 2008 campaign with an improvements in aid, including new machines and support for the proposals of Ansemat. Energy classification of tractors still in debate. Another debate is served: climate change. Does it remove agriculture as we know it?.

The general election brought a new Ministry that joins the portfolios of agriculture, fisheries and food and environment. Agriculture loses force apparently. A study determined that Spanish farmer incomes grew by 10.7% durante2007. The CPI grows up to 4.4%.

Continued strength in the markets: tractors up to 34% in entries and the rest of machines are infected this optimism. Opens a new debate: energy crops appearing by the pressure of the oil price. Reactions to the creation of the Ministry of the environment, Rural and marine: misgivings about the influence of environmentalists or farmers in the new structure. "Signing the Ansemat Chair of technology of tractors and agricultural machinery".

The CAP is in urgent review: need to cultivate more surface for harvesting more grain. Biofuels and the increased demand for food are subjected to analysis in the Agrievolution Summit held in Rome. The EU sets the destination of the surplus derived from the cut in the European agriculture Fund for underdeveloped countries.

Agricultural commodities prices fall and suffer the market of machinery. Serious problems with the fuel prices. There is a strike in road transport that press into the economic fabric of the country. The CPI reaches 4.6%.

Presents the Cema barometer to analyze market in the short and medium term forecasts: 90% of the European industry is satisfied or very satisfied with the results of your business. Support for the withdrawal of the compulsory set-aside rate to increase the supply of cereals at the global level. Reduction of prices in the cereals market. Brent barrel climbs 72,53% in the first half.

Machinery market begins to fall: decrease of 23%. The covert world crisis: sharp decline of livestock and dairy crisis. Of the Wine CMO raises doubts at the start of the harvest. The olive grove presents declines in his eagerly awaited productions. Despite the summer hydraulic booking gives a breather and is situated on percentage margins of 50 per cent at the national level.

Saver 2008 presents a market marked by the economics and Meteorology: the forestry and gardening. The price of oil continues to fall: 107 dollars barrel. However, diesel and gasoline rise slightly. Follow the downward trend in the price of cereals on the fish market. Electronics applied to agricultural experts meet in Madrid in an activity of the Ansemat Chair.

Certified change on the market of machinery of collection: market stable with a tendency to grow but conditioned by the crisis. The problems of financing, lack of stocks and components are already common. They begin to reduce production in the sector plans at European level. A new debate: "the agricultural sector as strategic sector in times of crisis". It is estimated the closure of the CPI around 3.5%. Castile and León, Spain: it is estimated that one million hectares of grain was planted by the extra costs of inputs.

It seems that the CAP negotiations will be closed. Just the positive inertia of the first half in the sector of mechanization: stagnation in the machinery of preparation and work of soil. The Eastern countries seem to save sales in agricultural machinery at the European level. An FAO report reveals a record of cereal production in 2008. However, prices have a decrease of 43% compared to 2007. The field hosts the exodus of construction workers.

The tractors market builds up 9 months with declines in 2008. The automotive machinery of collection has managed to pick up but could not speak of optimism. Maximum hardening on the use of pesticides: the reduction of pesticides and plant protection policy could do damage to fruit and vegetable production. The Brent barrel well below the $100 barrier. The IPC closed below 2%. Inputs: rise up 243% in plant protection and fertilizers in 2008. 1 euro = 1,365 dollars.