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GENE'S SHOP TALK

 

Special Services

 

I offer expertise to the nursery and horticultural world as: 

 

Legal and Technical Expertise and Nursery Appraisal services:

 

I have offered expert testimony and assessment in the areas of horticulture to the legal community for the last several years I have been retained to testify or arbitrate disputes regarding plant materials, valuation, plant health, plant salability, and plant quality .

 

I also have a proven system of valuation for in ground or container nursery stock. In the case of estate settlements, horticultural, and tree valuations I am considered and expert by many for values assessment in the Nursery Stock Field.  I am experienced in setting fair and defensible values on nursery stock lost by accident, taking, roadside impact and other issues including those damaged by agricultural over spray, weather and ice.  Nursery equity valuation services for Financial Institutions and Court Systems are a service we offer with certification of it's accuracy.

 

Mediation is a specialty. I can offer my help in whatever way you desire. There is an hourly charge for this work with a minimum of $300 to review the data relating to the case but it’s worth what you pay for it. My BS degrees in both botany and horticulture, post graduate work and decades of experience in commercial horticulture from both production and marketing perspectives makes me uniquely qualified to help you settle those lawsuits and disagreements that can torment you.

 

Nursery Planning

 

What I offer might be considered counter intuitive when I offer to help you get into the nursery business. In fact, when it comes to substantial returns on investment,  steady income, a solid moneymaking opportunity it’s hard to beat the nursery business.

 

As a Business Opportunity there are few things you can do which offer a higher Quality of Life . Add the tax avoidance benefits of an agricultural enterprise and I challenge anyone to come up with a better way to make good money and legally avoid excessive tax burdens.

 

Of course it's hard, it’s has risks, it requires substantial knowledge that is not readily available; although it it is available from qualified people. And there are CD’s, books and DVD’s available to those who really want to know and understand the enterprise. Of course an experienced expert helps. I am one. If you want to really know what could be done, the nursery business deserves a hard look. Don’t expect your future competitors to welcome you in with open arms and give you a free education. They won’t. If you want to explore the potential of growing your own in the nursery trade, Call me. I can help you.  If you want me to do more than just offer a word of encouragement there is a charge for a deep evaluation.  Inquire and lets talk about it.  Send me an email to start.

 

Auctioning off your nursery stock or not?  An Auction Alternative

 

Every year hundreds of nurseries have auction sales. The auctioneer sells the nursery stock for pennies on the dollar and takes 15% of the gross sales as commission. The good news, a nursery auction it’s quick and painless. At the end you get a check of quick cash and you walk away.  That counts only if you don’t care about money and want to get it settled at once.  On the other hand in an auction you will leave thousands, perhaps millions of dollars on the table.  But, you are out. It's quick.  It's easy.  It's just not very profitable.  Not good? 

 

If  maximizing your return matters to you, let me offer an alternative.  The layered marketing process.  One we do over and over again.

 

I have a friend who’s nursery I helped liquidate in the recently. He did it right. In less than 18 months he sold a couple million dollars worth of nursery stock for 75% of market price. He paid a commission to me to sell what I sold but he is far better off than he would have been with a simple liquidation auction.  A cost benefit analysis was done and it was determined that in auction he would recieve $200,000 for the plant material in the ground as is.   Dug and loaded over a couple years he got almost 2 million.  Patience and a commitment to making it work is what produces these kinds of results.

 

So if you are one of those who is buried in nursery stock, call me, I am your auction alternative. 

 

The net result is the same, SOLD!  you just get more money at the end with a layered marketing approach.  And after the whole layered marketing process you can still have an auction to the public for the residual for whatever balance of materials is left.  It works and works well.  It just takes planning.

 

Contract Growing

 

We are contract-growers of container nursery stock for others. We do it every year. Tell us what you will need in the future, we will grow a quality plant to your specifications. You pay front for materials as needed, we grow it out and you pay the balance upon completion. Your net cost can be up to half of what other nurseries will sell your from their inventory. All it takes is foresight.  Have the plants on hand when you need them.  Don't be blindsided.  Save Money.  We can grow them for you.