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Review of Case Materials
Reviews records, documents, testimony, data, and other relevant materials and consults with counsel regarding technical issues related to the matter.
Provide Expert Analysis
Applies specialized knowledge and experience to evaluate the technical or professional issues involved.
Form Expert Opinions
Develops independent, supportable opinions based on the available evidence and relevant standards.
Prepare Expert Reports
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A suitably qualified agribusiness expert can compare the contract with production records, quantities, quality specifications, pricing formulas, delivery records, invoices, payments, input responsibilities, and communications between the parties. USDA ERS distinguishes marketing contracts, which generally specify price or a pricing formula, quantity, quality, and delivery terms, from production contracts, under which the contractor often owns the commodity and specifies inputs or production practices while paying the producer for services. The expert can analyze the agricultural and commercial evidence without substituting for legal analysis by counsel or interpretation of contractual obligations by the applicable decision-maker.
The analysis may compare revenues, production costs, input purchases, labor, machinery expenses, overhead, commodity quantities, sales prices, and historical financial performance. The appropriate calculation depends on the enterprise and disputed issue. USDA ERS maintains commodity cost-and-return accounts that distinguish operating costs from allocated overhead and report individual cost components and returns, illustrating why agricultural financial analysis should identify which costs and revenues are directly attributable or appropriately allocated to the relevant enterprise.
A suitably qualified agribusiness expert may examine purchase and sales agreements, inspection certificates, shipment records, quantities, grades or condition information, pricing, delivery timing, rejection records, invoices, payments, and communications among growers, shippers, brokers, receivers, or other businesses. PACA provides a federal fair-trading framework for covered fresh and frozen fruit and vegetable transactions and includes mechanisms for handling commercial disputes. An expert can evaluate the underlying business and agricultural records without substituting for legal analysis of PACA requirements.
Prepares clear, well-supported expert reports outlining methodology, analysis, findings, and opinions.
Provide Deposition Testimony
Explains findings and opinions under oath and responds to questioning during deposition testimony.
Testify in Court
Presents specialized findings and opinions clearly to judges, juries, arbitrators, or other decision-makers.
Useful materials may include contracts and amendments, purchase orders, invoices, payment records, financial statements, ledgers, production and inventory records, commodity sales data, delivery and shipping records, inspection certificates, cost records, budgets, forecasts, insurance or financing documents, correspondence, and historical performance data. When a dispute concerns contract production, records showing who supplied inputs, who owned the commodity, what production requirements applied, and how compensation was calculated can be particularly important.
