I don’t get how say a strawberry grower/supplier for a major supermarket, grows and supplies continuous amounts of strawberries (or any other food item grown) to be able to supply the whole country on a mass basis.
Surely, once the ripe ones have been picked you have to wait ages for them to grow again. How on earth is there ever enough to supply so much all the time?
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We have fast transportation, and can ship fruit from places where it’s always warm, or where they have greenhouses.
Fruit also has relatively stable demand. Somebody out there knows roughly how many strawberries that people will buy each year. And that guy’s company buys strawberries from farmers around the world and ships them to the places where people buy them.
So yes, individual farmers will have strawberry plants that produce a certain number of berries, and then they’re done for the year. Suppose that Farmer John harvests his strawberries in June (note: I don’t know when strawberries are harvested). But there’s also Farmer Juan down in Mexico, and he’s got a crop that will be harvested in August. And then there’s a company in Florida (where it’s always warm) that specifically plants theirs in different months, so they are ready to harvest in October. Or whenever.
But it’s kind of the same every single year, so people have worked out a schedule. They buy from the same people every year, and everybody knows ahead of time how much they need to plant.
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