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Tyson Foods Inc. is closing four chicken processing plants as it looks to lower costs. The company said Monday that the plants being closed are located in North Little Rock, Arkansas; Corydon ...
The president of the Indiana Farm Bureau said that the organization is "extremely concerned about the closure of the Tyson pork processing facility. This is a devastating blow to the pork producers who sell hogs to Tyson." [132] On April 23, Tyson announced that a beef processing plant in Wallula, Washington was closing. Tyson executive Steve ...
Tyson Foods announced that another plant will be closing its doors.. On Monday, the food processing company announced that it would close its Emporia, Kansas facility in February 2025.. Over 800 ...
Tyson has laid off corporate employees and said it will close an Iowa pork plant, in addition to shutting chicken plants. Farmers depended on the plants as markets for their livestock.
The plants being closed are in Arkansas, Indiana and Missouri.
Chicken prices are down. That’s good news for chicken eaters, but bad news for Tyson Foods.
As an example of scale, a planned Tyson plant in Kansas was to have 1600 workers at the processing plant, with capacity to process 1.25 million birds per week. The plant was budgeted at $320 million. They expected to have between 100 and 200 farms within a 50-mile radius. There would be about 6 barns per site, to limit disease spread.
On April 6, 2020, a Tyson pork processing plant in Columbus Junction, Iowa, closed down after 148 workers tested positive for coronavirus, and two workers died. [126] Officials including the sheriff in Black Hawk County, Iowa, were critical of Tyson Foods on April 17, after an outbreak began at a company plant in Waterloo, Iowa.