外卖:Bishop Credits Proirierth对其“多元化”作物选择,客户群和营销的恢复能力。“多样性不仅在再生生产系统中至关重要,而且是营销系统。他推荐了很多东西,并在很多地方卖掉它们。“主教特别遵守许多与商业处理器一起工作的其他肉类农民,努力处理连锁扰动。“你用280磅的猪是什么时候成为400-LB的猪[因为没有大处理器打开]?”他问。“我的意思是,这让你处于一个可怕的位置......这很清楚地亮点,如果出现问题,整个(工业食品)系统就无法适应。”Finally, he says, “nobody overrules the consumer, so that’s where the power lies… we’re on the road to developing a more resilient, local food system, and we—the public—need to support it by how we spend our food dollars.”
外卖:“作为企业的幸存者总是一个移动的目标,”查普曼说,这使得适应性钥匙。然而,他认为他现有的商业模式是独特的,适合目前的条件:“我们作为一个小型区域生产者销售进入批发市场,我们足够大,商店喜欢与我们交易。”虽然长风电场很容易找到足够的季节性工人来收获季节,但查普曼已经看到许多农场通常依赖移民劳动力 - 特别是H2A工人 - 由于边境关闭而具有更大的困难。“It’s a pretty gripping commentary,” Chapman observes, “that a lot of [American agriculture] doesn’t work without a labor force that, by and large, doesn’t have a path to citizenship, that’s treated as second—or third—class citizens, and that doesn’t have legal protections, including the right to come to work.”
经验:McAfee说有机牧场乳制品“从未有过更好的销售或更热情”。他将这种成功的成功归功于消费者对免疫系统健康的关注,驾驶许多人试图为其益生菌丰富的原料牛奶。“这就是推动我们的市场,因为人们不想成为ICU的统计数据。”由于有机牧场地处理自己的原料牛奶,因此由于食品服务市场的损失,它们并不容易受到传统的加工设施封口,这已成为普通的普通。相反,他们将自己的牛奶瓶装,包装在自己的品牌下,然后将其送到自己的卡车上。这种直接连接McAfee说,使他们能够在他们意识到的时候枢转,到2月底,他们的需求将超过供应。“We adapted literally within a day, and sometimes we would deliver our products to stores and they would say, ‘just put all of your products on all the entire shelf, and don’t worry about anybody else, because they’re not coming for another two weeks. And as a result, we picked up a lot of new customers.”