Source: Keith Good, UNIV. OF ILLINOIS, FARM POLICY NEWS, 1/24/22


Jesse Newman and Jaewon Kang reported on the front page of Monday’s Wall Street Journal that, “The U.S. food system is under renewed strain as Covid-19’s Omicron variant stretches workforces from processing plants to grocery stores, leaving gaps on supermarket shelves. “In Arizona, one in 10 processing plant and distribution workers at a major produce company were recently out sick. In Massachusetts, employee illnesses have slowed the flow of fish to supermarkets and restaurants. A grocery chain in the U.S. Southeast had to hire temporary workers after roughly one-third of employees at its distribution centers fell ill.

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