disruption in trying to get that supply chain to catch up. How soon before the national emergency was announced did the food industry begin to suspect that they would need to make provisions? In other words, I assume they weren't totally caught off guard. No, absolutely not. And in fact, one of the things that has been really rewarding and helpful is how the food industry has banded together. So I'm a part of food industry coalition that represents everyone from the food logistics industry, which is our membership to the agricultural producers, grocery stores, food service, and really everything across that food supply chain. And we began talking about this when we started to see the pandemic emerging. So we did have those conversations starting before the national emergency was declared and those efforts have been redoubled now over the last six or eight weeks as this pandemic has really taken hold. So I promised those listening that we're going to do a deep dive into this. It's a (5/41)
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