Why are we out of…?

We at Clovers are lucky to be kept in decent supply of many items that are in short supply in other areas due to our great, long-standing relationships with local farmers. Thank them when you see them! Smaller operations are rising to the occasion and proving the value of sustainability and flexibility in the areas of meats, cheese, dairy, eggs, produce, flour, grains, and much more. A BIG thanks to our friends at Patchwork Family Farms, Covered-L, Brush & Trouble, Weiler Eggs [now Bushel Basket], Stanton Brothers, Imageenation Eggs, Linnenbringer Farms, Share-Life Farms, Three Creeks Produce, Stem to Table, The Sage Garden, Goatsbeard Farm, McKaskle Family Farm, Creekside Mill, Reiche Pecans, Missouri Native Pecans, and many more

Toilet Paper

*Note, we are receiving intermittent shipments of toilet paper in May

The supply is still working to catch up to the demand.

“Turns out, now that most people are using the bathroom solely at home, and not in commercial businesses, the demand for toilet paper made for home usage is up a whopping 40 percent, according to the paper company, which along with other manufacturers, is trying hard to make up the difference.”

Source: WTVD

Garlic

*Note, we have garlic back in stock as of May 14!

North America: High prices due to dried up stocks
Garlic stocks are also limited on the North American market. The shutdown of imports from China, which accounts for 80% of the world's garlic trade, had an impact on the market in Canada and the US. Due to the loss of this import channel, the importers focused on Argentina and Spain, as well as closer to home, on California and Mexico. These stocks soon dried up due to the sharp increase in the demand, so now it is time to wait for the new harvest from Spain, Mexico and China, which will arrive in May. Some of the supplies currently come from California, where smaller sizes are now also being sold. On the continent, prices have even tripled in some cases. Prices are expected to go back to normal around June. The garlic harvest in California is now entirely devoted to the retail, given that the foodservice was closed down in the first week of the measures. The demand from this sector is now back at 15-20% of what it normally is.

Source: FreshPlaza 4/24/20

Baking Yeast

*Note, we are starting to receive intermittent deliveries of baking yeast as of May 6

“We are not leaving any stone unturned to put the supply back into the pipeline,” Heilman [of Fleischmann’s] says. Still, he estimates it will take one to two months, give or take, to get store shelves stocked again.

Manufacturing plants feed the yeast with carbohydrates and nutrients and grow it in a series of larger and larger vessels where they can reproduce. It's then filtered, dried and packaged. From the start of the growing cycle to leaving the plant warehouse, yeast production takes about 10 days, and there are no shortcuts.

Source: USA Today