Agriculture

The Financial Valuation Group consultants have extensive experience with a wide variety of agricultural and related businesses.  We have consulted with companies through the peaks and valleys of this highly cyclical industry and recent rapid change and consolidation.  We have experience with agriculture industry operations in different parts of the country under very different conditions-from the irrigated fields of California to dry land farms and ranches in Montana, to the tiled cornfields and hog production facilities of Iowa and the orchids in Florida.  This consulting experience includes companies directly involved in agricultural production and processing and companies supplying and equipping producers and processors.  We have valued a number of family limited partnerships and limited liability companies whose primary assets consisted of farm and ranch operations.  Our experience also includes a number of companies in other industries with substantial dependence on agriculture-such as banks in rural communities.

Companies in the agriculture industry that The Financial Valuation Group has valued and/or consulted with have included the following:

• Dry land (unirrigated) small grain farm operations;
  
• Cattle ranch operations;
  
• Corn and soybean farm operations;
  
• Hog and poultry production facility operations;
  
• Dairy operations;
  
• Lettuce growers and processors;
• Almond producers;
  
• Farms with diverse operations, including grain and livestock production;
  
• Seed corn producers;
  
• Processors, ranging from pork to lettuce;
  
• Feed and feed additive manufacturers;
  
• Manufacturers of equipment, parts, and rebuilt parts for the agriculture industry;
  
• Distributors and retailers of feed and equipment;
  
• Importers and exports of agriculture products;
  
• Foreign subsidiaries of growers and feed and feed additive companies;
  
• Agricultural cooperatives;
  
• Food processors;
  
• Farm management companies; and
  
• Cooler and cold storage operators.

The Financial Valuation Group is familiar with industry trends, commodity and land prices, government subsidies, government trade policy and regulation, weather in various parts of the country, and world-wide demand for and supply of agricultural products.  We draw on this extensive experience in the agriculture industry to provide reliable consulting service to companies in the agriculture industry.