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Rising lumber prices, trucking issues, and high demand are contributing to a growing worldwide shortage of wood pallets - nearly doubling prices.
Demand is mostly coming from retailers and grocers trying to restock their distribution and fulfillment centers. Consumers are continuing to spend on goods over services.
Savannah Pallets, one of the Midwest s largest pallet makers, told Transport Topics that it s a perfect storm. The company believes it s a combination of a trucking shortage, a surge in the economy as COVID dies down, and a lack of output from sawmills.
Minnesota-based Viking Pallets told Transport that it s turning away new customers to take care of existing ones.
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February 18, 2021
The mission of the National Watermelon Association, the oldest fruit commodity association in the United States, remains largely unchanged from what it was pre-COVID-19, but with restrictions on travel, in-person conversations and meetings with policy makers, the means by which that mission is pursued has changed.
“Last March, everything changed,” said Bob Morrissey, executive director of the Lakeland, FL-based National Watermelon Association.
The focus is now on constant electronic communications.
The NWA is certainly not alone in that regard, he noted, as virtually all of his peers who run produce organizations or, for that matter, any other non-profit, have had to take a completely different approach in how they go about doing what they do for their members.