Dr.Charlie Hall, AmericanHort Chief Economist, has updated his 2018 Industry Insider Report: A Perspective on Profit Margin by providing two videos. The first updates the Index of Prices Paid by Growers in the Green Industry with 2018 cost input data. In this video Dr. Hall reviews the index data since 2007 and compares the 2018 data with the previous year to reveal changes in industry costs.
In the second video Dr. Hall talks about the major production inputs and what has transpired in the past year, as well as an outlook in the coming year for cost factors around Labor, Energy, Fertilizer and Transportation.