"Growing everything for everybody isn't going to cut it financially"
"Are we selling the right things that are making the right money we want to be making," he asked.
The nursery industry stands to improve its management of numerous product lines, often called stock keeping units or SKUs, said Charlie Hall, an economist specializing in the nursery industry at Texas A&M University.
First of all, nurseries should identify which plants contribute minimally to revenue - for example, less than $1,000 in annual sales - and remove them from their product portfolios immediately, he said.
In the future, growing everything for everybody isn't going to cut it financially, said Hall.
Growers often don't have sufficiently thorough cost accounting, so they're unaware of how much they're spending to produce each type of plant, he said.
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