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Rantoul Foods operates a pork processing plant in Rantoul, Illinois, and is one of the largest meat processing plants in central Illinois. [96] The plant's first case of COVID-19 was reported on April 25, 2020. Two days later, health inspectors visited the plant and found that it was not following appropriate infection control measures. [96]
Accounting for workers' families and businesses directly related to the plant, about 60% of the town is affected by the closure. Two hundred team members relocated to Tyson facilities in Iowa and ...
Chicken prices are down. That’s good news for chicken eaters, but bad news for Tyson Foods.
The Kansas plant's impending closure comes after a string of shuttered Tyson facilities in recent years. In 2023, Tyson Foods announced closures of plants in Indiana, Virginia, two in Arkansas and ...
The plant made pork, beef and chicken burritos and tacos, and employed about 700 workers. [63] On April 24, Hormel announced the closure of two plants in Willmar, Minnesota, after 14 workers tested positive for coronavirus. These Jennie-O turkey plants employed over 1,200 workers. [64]
Within the meat production industry, "meatpacking" is defined as "all manufacturing of meat products including the processing of animals." [1] This includes production of beef, pork, poultry, and fish. [1] The scope of the American meat production industry is large; it slaughters and processes over 10 billion animals per year. [4]
Other Tyson workers, like Ryan Coulter, 27, declined to move. After working at the North Little Rock, Arkansas, plant that closed in early October, in roles that included assessing meat ...
Hanging room, Armour's packing house, Chicago, 1896 Postcard of the Armour Packing Plant in Fort Worth, undated. Armour and Company had its roots in Milwaukee, where in 1863 Philip D. Armour joined with John Plankinton (the founder of the Layton and Plankinton Packing Company in 1852) to establish Plankinton, Armour and Company.