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A COVID year is like a dog year In so many businesses, COVID-19 has caused a fundamental change in the way sales are done. Of course, the dairy industry and greater food distribution sector have been no exception as we have written about in detail over the past year. Hoard’s Dairyman DairyLivestream, Agri-Mark’s Bryan Weller described the past year in an all too familiar way. “I joked with my colleagues that we are living in COVID-19 years right now. I think of a COVID-19 year as a dog year,” he explained. “The initial COVID-19 shutdown almost feels like something that happened seven years ago because it’s definitely been a period of time where it’s just been problem whack-a-mole.” ....
Dairy plant workers wanted The dairy supply chain was able to keep operating as best it could last spring thanks in no small part to the employees working at dairy processing plants. Consider this: There weren’t the large COVID-19 outbreaks or worker walkouts that occurred at some meat processing plants, causing tremendous backlogs of product. Things undoubtedly could have gone much differently. Instead, people truly rallied around the concept of being an essential worker, embracing the need to show up and literally feed their fellow citizens. They took changes to their workday in stride because they knew they were being implemented for good reason. ....
Moving cheese at the drop of a hat One thing we learned especially in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and continue to learn now is this: expect the unexpected. That’s been true for consumers trying to buy product at the store, but also for the manufacturers and processors making those products, including dairy processing plants. Dairy demand has taken unexpected twists and turns as places like restaurants and schools close and then find alternative ways to deliver product. Milk supply has rose and fallen in unexpected patterns as some co-ops and milk buyers implement production limits or take them away. And even packaging and transportation materials plastic resins, corrugated cardboard, steel, and lumber, for example have been increasingly hard to come by since more companies need a way to deliver their goods now. ....