JohnDB
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The only food issues with shipping are sugar, coffee, and cotton. That coming out of Vietnam and India.
The rest of the softs and grain market is just fine. Because where Brazil has fallen back the other groceries are just fine.
But food processing is the huge issue because they don't have enough labor to process the food. We don't buy live chickens or hogs or cattle...it's processed before it's sold all over the world. Same thing with corn, soybeans, oats, wheat, and rice. Here in America we are shipping those things just fine...but the processing is getting further and further behind and the butchering is as well.
Everything from pizza sauce to canned biscuits in every grocery store has huge holes in the shelves lately. It's not that the factories aren't trying...they are....but at ⅓-½ staff they can't produce.
We can still get fresh produce from field to table in 10 days from anywhere to anywhere. Production in the fields is just fine... shipping is just fine.
Chocolate is a great example.... cocoa beans are plentiful... chocolate is expensive and difficult to obtain.
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