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What's a miscount
actually costing you?

Your numbers, straight multiplication — see what count error and clipboard labor cost per season, next to what a drone count runs. Takes 30 seconds, no email required.

Airspace Checker Mission Estimator Inventory Calculator Repeat-Scan Value
Your Operation
3%
Conservative default. Set it to what you've actually seen between the books and the ground.
What It Costs You
Inventory value exposed to count error
$9,000
Inventory position error at your miscount rate. Overcounts sell plants you don't have — failed orders and make-goods. Undercounts hide plants that never get sold at all.
The clipboard, per year
$3,500
192 crew-hours a year spent counting instead of growing, loading, and selling.
A drone count of the whole property
$1,100–$1,650
Row-level counts from high-resolution aerial imagery — the whole property in one visit, no crew pulled off work.
Recover just 138 misplaced plants and it paid for itself.
Your numbers, straight multiplication — nothing hidden. The drone range is the same ballpark math our Mission Estimator shows, and an exact quote is free.
Context, since labor is the line that moves in this industry: for nursery and greenhouse operations it runs about 34% of gross cash farm income, against roughly 10% for US farms generally — and it has climbed steadily from 29% since 1999 (Bampasidou & Fields, Choices Magazine, AAEA, on USDA-NASS data). Counting is part of that line, not separate from it — a McMinnville nursery's federal H-2A filing lists “taking inventory and grading plants” among the duties it hires seasonal crews for, at $15.14/hour for the 2024 season (US Dept. of Labor job order). Warren County alone certified 195 H-2A workers in FY2024, the highest concentration in Tennessee (UT Extension W1331). And knowing what's actually in the ground is the planning basis for labor, space, and supplies (Texas A&M AgriLife). The miscount rate above is yours to set — we don't invent your numbers.

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