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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 ...
Tyson Foods says it will close its meat processing plant in Emporia employing 800 people. U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, said the decision will have a significant impact on the regional economy.
Chicken prices are down. That’s good news for chicken eaters, but bad news for Tyson Foods.
On April 18, 2020, local health officials shut down a Hormel Foods plant in Rochelle, Illinois, that employed 800 people after at least 24 workers tested positive for coronavirus. [61] On April 21, Hormel announced the closure of three meat processing plants, including its Alma Foods plant in Alma, Kansas.
The William Davies Company facilities in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, circa 1920. This facility was then the third largest hog-packing plant in North America. The meat-packing industry (also spelled meatpacking industry or meat packing industry) handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of meat from animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock.
And in March 2024, Tyson announced it would stop operations at its Perry, Iowa pork-packing plant. The summer closure of the Perry plant was expected to leave 1,276 workers at the city's largest ...
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]