Digger magazine

Serving the Northwest Nursery Industry for Over 50 Years

  • Digger-Employment_banner-2020-728x90px.jpg
  • NG_banner-2020-728x90px.jpg
  • FW_banner-2022-728x90px.jpg
  • Home
  • Articles
    • Nursery News
    • Features
    • Plants
    • Growing Knowledge
    • Operations
    • Nursery Country
    • Meta
  • Issues
  • Events
  • Farwest
  • Columns
    • Director’s Desk
    • Mike Darcy
    • Pivot Points
    • President’s Message
  • Employment Classifieds
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe
You are here: Home / Archives for Finance

Preventing fraud at your business

By Kelly Paxton — Posted September 1, 2020

Recently there have been a few high-profile embezzlement cases at nurseries. Just in Oregon, almost $5 million was stolen from two nurseries. Any industry can be impacted by embezzlement and fraud. Fraudsters generally don’t target a specific industry. They end up seeing an opportunity where they work. The best way to stop an embezzlement is […]

Filed Under: Nursery Operations Tagged With: Business, Digger, Digger magazine, Finance

Proper credit

By Jon Bell — Posted January 23, 2020

Nurseries need to play it safe when it comes to setting payment terms In 2006, about six years after he founded JLPN Inc., a nursery seeding operation in Salem, John Lewis had finally reached a point where he was ready to begin operating on cash. Up until then, the business had been run largely on […]

Filed Under: Nursery Operations Tagged With: Business, Digger, Digger magazine, Finance, OAN, OAN Members

Working assets

By Chris Waetzig — Posted December 28, 2018

Educating workers on personal finance helps both the employer and the employee Articles seem to be published every day about how individuals will have to work well past retirement age because they haven’t saved enough for retirement and Social Security soon won’t be sufficient to meet their income needs. “Saving more” isn’t the simple solution […]

Filed Under: Nursery Operations Tagged With: Benefits, Business, Digger, Digger magazine, Finance, People

Money efficiency

By Carol Suruki — Posted April 30, 2018

These tips will help growers spend their business dollars wisely As a business owner, you want to spend your money on what provides true, long-term business value. Because nurseries can rely heavily on cash flow to keep their operations running, it’s important to understand where your money is going and plan for your capital investments. […]

Filed Under: Nursery Operations Tagged With: Business, Digger, Digger magazine, Efficiency, Finance, moss adams

Major agricultural lender forecasts improved growth for Oregon nurseries in 2015

By Curt Kipp — Posted November 21, 2014

Oregon’s gross nursery sales look like they will exceed $800 million in 2014, and they could very well go even higher than that in 2015, Bob Boyle told OAN members at the November 21 meeting of the OAN Willamette Chapter, which took place in Salem. “I think I’m as bullish now on the industry as […]

Filed Under: Nursery News Tagged With: Business, Consumer trends, Economy, Finance, Politics, Wholesale Nurseries, Workforce

Small business loans for nurseries affected by drought

By Curt Kipp — Posted May 27, 2014

Small, nonfarm businesses — including nurseries — in 13 Oregon counties and neighboring counties in California are now eligible to apply for low-interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). These loans are intended to offset economic losses caused by drought conditions in the following Oregon counties: Grant, Josephine, Baker, Crook, Curry, […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Business, Finance, Water, Weather

Oregon launches loan program for young farmers

By Curt Kipp — Posted April 25, 2014

Demographic tides are moving farmers, as a group, in an older direction. The average U.S. farmer is now 59.6 years old — up from 57.5 in 2007 and 54.9 in 2002. Oregon is not immune to this trend; in fact, Oregon farmers are, on average, even older. It’s a trend that state officials and industry leaders […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 2013 Legislature, Christmas trees, Finance, Greenhouses, Management, Oregon Department of Agriculture, Retail Nurseries, Wholesale Nurseries, Young Nursery Professionals

Bailout bill contains provisions that can help nurseries

By Curt Kipp — Posted December 30, 2008

When Congress passed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, better known as the bailout package, it provided $700 billion in relief to the troubled financial industry. However, it also included many provisions that could benefit the nursery and greenhouse industry directly through tax incentives and other tax deductions. Steve Shropshire of the law firm […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Energy, Finance, Legal, Operations, Politics, Regulations, Taxes

Green industry consultant organizes motivational seminar

By Curt Kipp — Posted December 8, 2008

“It’s a Great Time to be in Business,” a free webinar developed by green industry consultant Jim Paluch and his firm, JP Horizons, will take place from 10-11 a.m. (Pacific Time) Thursday, Dec. 18. It will include a series of presentations with an overall theme of how to thrive in any economy. Subject areas covered […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Business, Education, Events, Finance, Operations, Workforce

The Value of Membership

Meet the Leader: Rod Park

President’s Awards Banquet recognizes vital contributions

Meet the Leader: Mark Bigej

More member stories

NURSERY NEWS

Bailey hires trade communications specialist

Pursell Agri-Tech hires director of turf and ornamentals

Fall Creek hires general counsel

Oregon State hires dean of agriculture sciences

In Memoriam: Laszlo Geza Pomazi

More Nursery News

From the pages of Digger

May 2022 — The Technology Issue

April 2022 — The Tree Issue

March 2022 — The Greenhouse Issue

February 2022 — Retail Outlook issue

January 2022 – Nursery Country

More issues of Digger

CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE

Virtual is the new reality – for now

Trade shows in the time of COVID

A demand ‘renaissance’ for nurseries

Western Nursery & Landscape Association falls victim to pandemic

MANTS 2021 to move online due to COVID-19

More articles

Nursery Guide LIVE

Nursery Guide LIVE clicks into place

Booth spaces still available for Nursery Guide LIVE March 17–18

Nursery Guide LIVE virtual marketplace postponed due to winter storm damage

Keynote presentations at Nursery Guide LIVE virtual marketplace provide insight on green industry trends in 2021 and beyond

More Posts from this Category

FARWEST SHOW UPDATES

Little Prince repeats as Best in Show booth winner

Two stand out at New Varieties Showcase

Retailers’ Choice Awards embrace discoveries at Farwest

Farwest marks a gathering of new, returning faces

Farwest Show voting attendees choose Kimono™ Hydrangea as People’s Choice winner at New Varieties Showcase

More Updates from Farwest

Connect with us online

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
​

Updates to exisiting subscriptions can be sent to info@oan.org

News

  • Nursery News
  • Growing Knowledge
  • Nursery Operations
  • Meta

Features

  • Plant Features
  • OAN Members
  • Oregon Nursery Country

Columns

  • Director’s Desk
  • Mike Darcy
  • Pivot Points
  • President’s Message

Resources

  • OAN Home Page
  • Job Listings
  • Subscribe to Digger
  • Advertise in Digger
  • Online Plant Search

© Copyright 2020 Oregon Association of Nurseries · Admin

 

Loading Comments...