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Last Thursday, September 22, nursery crop producers in the
Mobile/Baldwin County area held a follow-up
meeting at the Jon Archer Ag Center to meet
with government officials and express their
concerns about hurricane-related damage to their
operations. Approximately 175 growers made
the effort to attend and represent our industry.
Thank you so much to all who took the time to
come to this important meeting.
Dr. Deacue Fields, AU Dept of Ag Economics, put together the
report that follows. Thanks, Deacue, for
your help with this! His report will be
forwarded to our representatives in Washington,
DC, along with our requests for changes to
official language in various programs so that nursery growers can be
included in agricultural aid packages (see
below).
Hurricane Disaster Nursery Losses for the Mobile
County Area
This summary is based on
losses incurred within the 50 weeks from Ivan to
Katrina which include named storms Cindy and
Dennis. This reflects 59 entries out of 210
possible responses in Mobile and Baldwin
Counties combined.
Reported inventory value is $94.4 million with
an average per nursery of $2,483,752.
Individual nursery inventory loss was as low as
2% and as high as 100%.
Acres in production =
2,186.
The crop value per acre is $43,161.
Total losses =
$14,579,520 which consists of the
following:
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Loss inventory =
$4,654,415
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Loss structures =
$1,956,633
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Loss equipment =
$318,806
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Loss sales =
$2,757,250
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Labor – preparation =
$577,434
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Labor – storm watch (labor during storm
address immediate major threats) =
$117,997
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Labor – clean up & recovery =
$1,492,657
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Delayed production (crop that will not be
saleable on time because of storm damage) =
$2,440,595
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Generator purchase =
$111,286
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Power Saw Purchase =
$5,000
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Pumps (storm related) =
$5,500
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Fuel (storm related) =
$3,356
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Collateral loss (irrigation, ground cover,
etc)
= $138,591
The average inventory loss
per nursery per named storm event is $96,967.
The average total loss per nursery per named
storm event is
$247,110.
Total loss per acre is
$6,667.
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