• Farms
• Ranches
• Orchards
• Vineyards
• Rural Land

Specialty Real Properties

• Dairies
• Nurseries
• Commodity facilities
• Processing facilities
• Agrifinance

Personal Property
Valuations

• Crop inventories
• Farm machinery

• Livestock
• Business valuations
• Growing crops
• Water resources
• Economic loss

Crop Loss &
Real Estate Valuations

• Natural Disaster
• Poor Farming Practice
• Direct Condemnation
• Inverse Condemnation

Court Testimony

• Court Testimony
• Litigation Support

The Machinery and Technical Specialties discipline includes appraisals of general machinery and equipment or other specialties as described below.

Agricultural Chattels - Specializing in crops, livestock, agricultural vehicles, farm and ranch machinery and equipment, and other non-real estate assets, these are concerned with both fair market value and various definitions of liquidation value for collateralization, estates, property sales and futures markets. They must also be familiar with real property appraisal when dealing with crops that are real estate until harvested but then become personalty.

Machinery and Equipment (M&E) - Appraisers in this specialty are professionally qualified to evaluate machine shops, transportation equipment, food process facilities, office machines, such as computers, copiers and word processors, and so forth. Appraisals for insurance purposes require valuing the entire contents of buildings; the M&E appraiser also allocates purchase price, fair market value in place, fair market value in use and valuation for ad valorem tax purposes. Additionally, equipment analysis for future and residual values is fast becoming on the the more common assignments for today's M&E appraiser.

Dale Hibler ASA