Valuation | Advisory | Genetics
Bringing generations of experience to valuation of rural and agricultural property and plant genetics.
Arable Advisory Group assembles the decades of experience of Ben and John Slaughter, son and father, and the team they have assembled. Ben has served appraisal needs of agricultural property for decades and John has bred and patented dozens of varieties of tree fruits, nuts, and rootstocks.
Headquartered in California’s San Joaquin Valley, experience spans well beyond the Golden State with appraisal coverage in dozens of states and plant genetics in use on four continents.
-Listen to Ben’s discussion on wine market valuations on Carol Collison’s Small Fortune podcast.
-See a writeup on John’s almond breeding successes in the Farm Progress publication.
-Listen to John’s discussion on almond breeding on the AgNet West Radio Network.
Contact Us
PO Box 28251
Fresno, CA 93729
(559) 409-4770
Areas of Practice
Valuation
The valuation team has provided real estate appraisals for many uses across several decades. Uses include financing, market value accounting, estate planning, eminent domain, buy/sell decisions, litigation support, etc. Clients include all major agricultural lenders, institutional investors, state and federal entities, utilities, departments of transportation, land trusts, agribusinesses, individual landowners, attorneys, and accountants.
Property type experience includes irrigated and dry farm cropland, rangeland, trophy ranches, livestock facilities (dairy, beef, poultry, swine, equestrian), grain facilities, seed cleaners, greenhouses, minerals, energy generation (solar & wind), rural-urban transitional property, rural residential, recreational property, etc. The team excels in permanent plantings and the facilities that support those crops including:
Nuts: almonds, pistachios, walnuts, hazelnuts, pecans
Grapes: wine, table, raisin
Fresh Fruit: citrus, stone fruit, apples, cherries, pears, blueberries
Supporting facilities include wineries, packing sheds, processing, cold storage, hulling/shelling facilities, dehydrators, etc.
Services include business valuation (going concern) and the valuation of crops and inventory including livestock herds, wine inventory, and produce inventories.
Advisory
The genetics team strives for improved cultivars through classical breeding techniques in several permanent plantings with dozens of existing patents. Patients include Shasta and Pyrenees almond, Cornerstone and Pinnacle peach-almond hybrid rootstocks, Flame peach series, Flare nectarine series, etc. Desirable traits are not limited to bigger and better fruit and nuts but includes traits that bring trees that are hardier and require fewer inputs including self-fertility, lower chilling requirements, later bloom, earlier harvest, and drought and pest tolerance, all designed to increase sustainability and climate resilience.
Genetics
Advisory and consulting services include investment analysis, litigation support, transaction support, eminent domain proceedings, and extends to patent writing, orchard design, tree architecture and training, and innovations in cultural practices for various permanent plantings.