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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]
On Monday, the food processing company announced that it would close its Emporia, Kansas facility in February 2025. Over 800 employees of the plant were notified about the closure in a letter.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A meat processing plant in High River, Alberta located about 37 miles (60 km) south of the city of Calgary, is the site of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks in North America, [23] [4] [24] with two deaths, 946 employees who tested positive, and with links to 1,560 cases in Alberta by May 6. [23] The plant employs 2,000 people. [5]
Chicken prices are down. That’s good news for chicken eaters, but bad news for Tyson Foods.
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]