What you can learn from fertilizer's COVID-19 precautions
From top to bottom in the fertilizer supply chain, the COVID-19 message is the same: Supply is good. Inventories are good. Let’s not get sick.
Brian Waddell, sales and procurement manager for Harbrand, which supplies fertilizer to a network of 15 retail locations in central Illinois, says he’s not concerned about spring fertilizer supply because distributors and retailers started positioning for spring 2020 back in late-summer 2019. They’re stocked and ready to roll.
“Our biggest concern is whether we can keep our employees healthy for the next 90 days,” he says, adding their average retail fertilizer plant has 10 full-time employees and services 40,000 acres. That means they don’t have a wave of backup people poised to work if folks get sick or quarantined.
Like a lot of companies, Harbrand is communicating the need to limit unnecessary foot traffic. They’re restricting third-party access and, in some cases, gently disbanding the informal coffee shops that used to meet every morning in their retail facilities.
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Brian Waddell, sales and procurement manager for Harbrand, which supplies fertilizer to a network of 15 retail locations in central Illinois, says he’s not concerned about spring fertilizer supply because distributors and retailers started positioning for spring 2020 back in late-summer 2019. They’re stocked and ready to roll.
“Our biggest concern is whether we can keep our employees healthy for the next 90 days,” he says, adding their average retail fertilizer plant has 10 full-time employees and services 40,000 acres. That means they don’t have a wave of backup people poised to work if folks get sick or quarantined.
Like a lot of companies, Harbrand is communicating the need to limit unnecessary foot traffic. They’re restricting third-party access and, in some cases, gently disbanding the informal coffee shops that used to meet every morning in their retail facilities.
Click Here to read more.