{"id":21084,"date":"2020-04-06T08:05:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T15:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/?p=21084"},"modified":"2020-04-28T13:47:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T20:47:14","slug":"food-going-to-waste-during-covid-19-crisis-from-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/04\/06\/food-going-to-waste-during-covid-19-crisis-from-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"Food going to waste during COVID-19 crisis – from Politico"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Adam Behsudi and Ryan McCrimmon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The coronavirus pandemic is leading the food industry and regulators to change policies as they grapple with empty shelves, a glut of fresh produce and milk, and sudden shifts in consumer buying habits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem isn\u2019t a shortage of food and commodities. If anything, food waste is becoming a bigger issue as traditionally big, bulk buyers \u2014 like college dorms and restaurant chains \u2014 suddenly stop receiving deliveries. As a result, millions of gallons of milk are being dumped, and farmers have no alternative but to turn fresh vegetables into mulch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Federal agencies are scrambling to keep up with the altering landscape by easing rules governing trucking, imports, agricultural visas and labeling requirements for restaurants and manufacturers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe way a client described it is they\u2019re seeing a tsunami of demand shift from foodservice to food retail,\u201d said Bahige El-Rayes, a partner who co-leads the consumer and retail practice at Kearney, a consulting firm. \u201cIf you\u2019re a manufacturer today of food, it\u2019s basically how do you adapt? How do you actually take what you sent to restaurants then sell it now to retail?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New alliances are being formed as demand from restaurants dry up and consumers look for new ways of delivery. Kroger, the largest U.S. supermarket chain, has partnered with foodservice giants Sysco and U.S. Foods, which normally supply the restaurant industry and large institutions, to share labor and keep store shelves stocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The partnerships offer employment to foodservice workers that would otherwise be furloughed or laid off as a result of a near shutdown of the restaurant sector. It also provides much needed manpower to the overwhelmed food retail industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rewiring the U.S. food network, however, comes with logistical headaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSince we\u2019re buying more at the grocery store, it means [food items] have to be in that form,\u201d said Pat Westhoff, director of the University of Missouri\u2019s Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute. \u201cWe have a bunch of stuff that\u2019s still stuck with restaurants, and they\u2019re trying to decide what to do with it at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Farmers are also scrambling to recalibrate their production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Guebert Jr., Illinois Farm Bureau president, said his state\u2019s meatpacking companies have fewer employees showing up because of concerns of being too close to other workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe industry is backing up on bacon and other products that they put together as cut-outs, so they\u2019re slowing down and not doing the volume that they had,\u201d Guebert said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a concern for pork producers because they just can\u2019t turn their buildings on or off like you can an assembly line,\u201d he added. From the time sows give birth to slaughter, \u201cit\u2019s a nine-month process that started nine months ago. Pigs continue to be born every day, whether they keep the whole capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, major food distributors including U.S. Foods and Performance Food Group are begging the Treasury Department to prioritize loan applications from their sector as companies shift operations to supply retailers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis kind of transition, even if temporary, takes time and investment as we adjust our warehousing, logistics and purchasing processes to meet a consumer-facing market,\u201d they wrote in a letter to the Trump administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A group of food worker associations also made an appeal to congressional leaders<\/a> that any future aid package should \u201cinclude support for America\u2019s essential critical industry workers\u201d through tax exemptions or direct payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the U.S., an excess supply of food production is forcing some sectors to take extreme measures and ask for extra creative solutions from the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cClearly we\u2019re in a time of crisis,\u201d said Gordon Speirs, owner of Shiloh Dairy in Brillion, Wis. \u201cWe\u2019ve lost 25 percent of our income just through the crashed market. Now we face the reality of having to dump milk on top of that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Umhoefer, executive director of the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association, said the foodservice sector accounts for half of all cheese sold in the U.S., while only one-third is sold at grocery stores. Without that critical market, milk producers need the government to \u201cimmediately begin to purchase dairy products\u201d and distribute them to food pantries and school feeding programs, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Westhoff, of the University of Missouri, said the drop in restaurant dining will eventually hamper demand for high-end meat products like steaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven though we have a short-run rush to the grocery store that gave us a run-up in prices very temporarily, we don\u2019t think that\u2019s going to last very long,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The radical change in the age of the pandemic is a seismic shift for the food industry. In 2018, Americans spent more on food from full-service and fast-food restaurants \u2014 about $678 billion \u2014 compared to the roughly $627 billion spent at grocery stores and warehouse clubs, according to USDA data. Spending on food away from home is even higher when counting meals at schools, colleges, sporting events and other entertainment venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, the National Restaurant Association expects the industry will shed $225 billion over the next few months, along with some 5-7 million jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGrocery stores just aren\u2019t set up to restock shelves to meet that kind of demand,\u201d said Joseph Glauber, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the most part, food analysts say consumers don\u2019t need to worry about other countries that are putting in place export restrictions<\/a> on food and agricultural goods. Vietnam, the third-largest exporter of rice, has temporarily suspended exports of the grain. Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, major wheat producers, have capped exports of the commodity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe signs are all disturbing on the foreign side, but if you look at all the actions taken they don\u2019t seem at least yet to have very big ramifications,\u201d said Glauber, who previously served as chief economist for the Agriculture Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, the U.S. appears to have faced fewer hurdles to transporting food and farm goods than other countries. Border checks across Europe, for example, have snarled trucking and at one point backed up traffic as far as 50 miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Union has tried to ease the congestions by opening so-called green lanes for trucks carrying farm goods. U.S. highway regulators, for their part, have lifted driving hour limits<\/a> for essential products including \u201cfood for emergency restocking of stores.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some governments have asked their citizens to help pick fruits and vegetables and considered designating special planes and buses to transport workers from Eastern Europe to farmlands in the West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Walmsley, director of congressional relations for the American Farm Bureau Federation, said there haven\u2019t been widespread transport disruptions yet. But he said flexibility on trucking rules could be crucial over the long term if there\u2019s an eventual shortage of drivers, to ensure \u201cthat those who are healthy can continue to move products as safely as possible for as long as possible.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the U.S., strict border controls have disrupted farmers\u2019 access to migrant labor, exacerbating what was already a massive problem for the industry, with harvesting right around the corner for some sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If produce is stuck decaying in fields in the coming months, it could potentially drive up retail prices and cause shortages at grocery stores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the lack of commercial flights is also crushing the capacity to bring in perishable foods, like berries from South America, which often hitch a ride in the belly of passenger planes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnytime you go to the grocery store in the winter, you see that most of the fresh fruit and vegetable is not coming from the U.S.,\u201d said Peter Friedmann, executive director of the Agriculture Transportation Coalition. \u201cThis continues year-round. A lot of the processed foods, canned food, etc. are imported.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim Alderman, a vegetable farmer in Palm Beach County, Fla., said the lack of big buyers has cut off growers in his area from critical buyers including cruise lines and Disney World.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He started dumping his tomatoes. Nearby farmers are doing the same with zucchini and yellow squash, which now fetches market prices far below the cost of picking and packing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey\u2019re cutting their squash every day and throwing it on the ground, hoping the market will turn around,\u201d Alderman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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