Supply Conditions cont. Jan 21

For California AG today, I'm Mike Stephens. We continue speaking with Caroline Stringer, Trade Director for the California Fresh Fruit Association. She explains how real world solutions can help with logistics and supply chain problems. There's still a lot of work that needs to be done in terms of improving all the different pieces, all of the complicated web of tangled, interconnected issues that go into the supply chain crisis, especially as it pertains to ag exporters in Sacramento and D.C. There are still folks are still working hard to make sure that we don't let up on other regulatory solutions that can help ease the issues. So we primarily work through the AG Transportation Coalition, and they're based in D.C. and for California. We've got multiple growing seasons, so there's always something that's being shipped out. But for I'm thinking about stone fruit when the stone fruit season starts, it's really May, June, and by that time, are we hoping that things are going to be better? Absolutely, absolutely. We won't know until we get closer to the season what that'll look like. So we just have to continue communicating to folks in regulatory roles and political roles. What this is going to look like if we don't get it fixed and real world solutions that will help alleviate some of the problems, I think is the other the other big thing.