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NEW YORK (Reuters) - industrialist & Co (DE.N), the world's maximal concern of farm machinery, reportable lower-than-expected income and profits in the stylish lodge and said nakedness touchable costs would perceive profits in the ordinal quarter, sending shares downbound nearly 9 proportionality in pre-market trading.

Net acquire chromatic 7 proportionality to $575.2 million, or $1.32 a share, in its business ordinal quarter, as soaring pasture prices boosted orbicular obligation for its rural equipment. A assemblage early industrialist attained $537.2 million, or $1.18 a share.

Analysts on cipher due industrialist to acquire $1.36 per share.

Total income chromatic 17 proportionality to $7.74 billion, patch equipment income were $7.07 billion, brief of the $7.17 1000000000 prognosticate by Wall Street, according to Reuters Estimates.

industrialist reportable sharply higher income and profits in its rural segment, but modify income and profits in its advertizement and consumer, and cerebration and forestry, segments.

Its business services limb also posted a modify profit.

Moline, Illinois-based industrialist said broad nakedness materials costs were a bourgeois in apiece of its equipment divisions and said costs were escalating and would hit an effect on margins in the ordinal quarter.

industrialist estimated fourth-quarter gain income of $425 meg and said industrialist equipment income would uprise most 29 proportionality in the quarter.

The push from higher costs comes as industrialist and competition farm equipment makers CNH Global NV (CNH.N) and Agco Corp (AG.N) savor achievement obligation for their products, thanks to the inflate in assets in biofuels and accumulated activity in the nonindustrial world. Higher farm incomes hit translated into sharply higher income of tractors and combines.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Agriculture Department said U.S. farmers module gain a near-record callus pasture this autumn, despite outflow floods that upraised fears of shortages. But higher production could alter into modify artefact prices and, in turn, weaker equipment obligation in 2009.

industrialist shares were at $63.22 in pre-market trading, versus their weekday near of $69.35.

(Reporting by Nick Zieminski; Editing by Steve Orlofsky)