date:Aug 06, 2018
ed, where we were negatively impacted by operational headwinds. First, higher production costs, coupled with operational inefficiencies, resulted from our ongoing efforts to rebalance our starch inventories across our network; second, freight inflation continued to impact our business; and third, we experienced softer-than-expected sweetener volumes, leading to a weaker outlook for the second half of the year.
We must be, and we will be, more agile in addressing and navigating these changes imp