Peanut buying-point portfolio
Carolina Peanut engaged AgValue to value a three-location portfolio with nearly 100,000 tons of peanut capacity. The assignment included real estate, machinery and equipment, rolling stock, and the overall business.
100,000-ton peanut capacityVertically integrated poultryReal estate + business assets
Representative experience
Understanding the operation behind the asset.
The assignment
AgValue’s experience with food and agricultural processing plants requires an understanding of the complete agricultural asset—not simply acreage or building area. The scope can encompass land, specialized improvements, supporting infrastructure, production systems, and relevant machinery and equipment.
The valuation perspective
The valuation considers how the physical components function together, the market for continued agricultural use, and the evidence appropriate to the assignment. This integrated approach gives owners, lenders, investors, fiduciaries, and legal professionals a clear and supportable view of value.
Project profile
From peanuts to poultry
Vertically integrated poultry
AgValue professionals have worked with major poultry processing organizations, including facilities associated with Koch Foods and Harrison Poultry. Assignments have covered integrated asset portfolios extending from feed mills and hatcheries through processing plants.
Highly specialized operations
The firm’s processing experience also includes one of only two squab processing facilities in the United States, requiring allocation and analysis of real estate, machinery and equipment, and business value.
A multidisciplinary view
Property, production, infrastructure, and market.
Complex agricultural valuation requires the scope and methodology to fit the asset and the decision the work must support.
Physical assets
Land, specialized improvements, infrastructure, equipment, capacity, condition, and remaining economic utility.
Operating context
Production systems, management realities, contracts, resources, regulatory factors, and operational risk.
Market evidence
Comparable transactions, costs, income characteristics, regional demand, and industry-specific market conditions.
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