Shipping Update

We have about 50 pickups remaining to complete the season, so it has slowed down to about 5 people a day now or less. 

What went well:

• Sales were strong again this year - THANK YOU!
• Long shipping season helped to spread some work out. 
• Communication on estimated arrival time was great overall, which helped us spread people out when possible and be set up to ship. 

Challenges:

• Late in season order reduction after booking seed on a sold out product has caused sales to be lost while reserving a product for a customer.
  • In some cases causing us to carry over or dump inventory that could have been sold. We do carry over inventory at times but on sold out products it does become a problem.
    • We know there are adjustments and changes that happen but in some cases its super b size amounts.
• Changes to volumes/or treatments after arriving (let us know pickup adjustments before sending a truck) 
  • Late seed treatment changes in general were more challenging vs normal.
• April was peak shipping season before we had full staff vs last season that was more mid April through May.
  • I am hoping to add more seed yard seasonal staff for March and April 

If there is anything we can do to make the pickup process smoother or easier please let us know so we can make adjustments for next season: Here is a 4 question survey you can fill out anonymously.