Large packing plants seem to be falling like dominoes across rural America.
In recent months, Tyson Foods has closed a plant in Nebraska, reduced a Texas facility to one shift, announced the closure of another plant in Illinois and the elimination of case-ready operations in Utah, and put a Washington state plant up for sale. Meanwhile, JBS is eliminating slaughter operations at a facility it owns in Pennsylvania.
Cattle ranchers and feeders supplying those plants now must figure out where they can feasibly ship their animals for harvest.
