Guys, I bribed our vendor to let me take a look at his produce sheet. He wouldn’t let me keep it, but I was able to get off a few photos before he left. Keep in mind that a lot of the good news is Northwest-specific, but it’s helpful.
My dude said that a lot of smaller local farmers have stepped up to fill the national shipping gap here, and some things are still coming in from northern California here too; shipments that can’t make it over the Rockies are staying here in Cascadia and coming up 101 or I-5 instead. So far piracy is less of an issue on our stretch of shipping highway (from the California border to the customs crossing at Blaine) than it is in almost every other part of the country, save the Northeast. So things are tight but holding together.
Pay attention to the last paragraph, though. That ain’t so good.
Spoiler:
This is a real cheatsheet from my produce guy at work; obviously it is not top secret info. However, it is unedited. So yes, the corn info is for real.
Cool post. That is scary about corn.
fwiw, corn is not a significant input to dairy products in the NW, nor for west-side beef either.
We should see much better local produce conditions next year, after the changeover from grass and flower seed to row crops (especially in the Willamette Valley) is complete.