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Is There a Global Assembly Line Behind Flowers?
After World War II commercial flights really sort of for the first time right the modern commercial airline industry was born. And so then it became possible to start looking for places around the world where you could grow flowers here round and that means the equator. So now they're planted in in Colombia and Ecuador primarily and then they get packed up on a little farm there and they moved by refrigerated truck and onto a plane. There's those issues of currency fluctuations is a huge deal when you're dealing with global agribusiness, price of oil and the price of fertilizer like so many factors going into this. Like your flowers have probably been talked about and haggled over in more languages than