April 28, 2020 / By Joshua Nelson | Fox News
Western Growers Association CEO Dave Puglia told “America’s Newsroom” Tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic has been a “difficult” challenge for farmers due to the shutdown of restaurants and other parts of the food sector that rely on produce.
“We have in this country [a] highly sufficient and very safe food supply infrastructure,” Puglia said. “Those supply chains have been well developed over the years and when this shutdown happened–it literally blew them up.”
“We’re trying to re-piece all of our supply chains to be able to continue providing safe and affordable and fresh food to consumers through grocery outlets,” Puglia said, “but the loss of the restaurant sector really threw a grenade into the middle of our food supply chain.”
