Meat plants shut in Iowa and Pennsylvania amid coronavirus spread
Major US meat companies announced on Monday (7 April) that they have shut three facilities that produce pork and beef in Iowa and Pennsylvania in the latest disruption to the country's food supply chain from the coronavirus outbreak.
by The Pig Site
7 April 2020, at 10:23am
Reduced meat output from the shutdowns threatens to tighten supplies of certain products at a time when demand is rising at grocery stores as the country battles COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus.
Tyson Foods Inc shut a hog slaughterhouse in Columbus Junction, Iowa, for the week after more than 24 cases of COVID-19 involving employees at the facility, according to a statement. The company said it would divert hogs to other pork plants in an attempt to minimise the disruption from the closure.
The facility kills about 10,100 pigs a day, or about 2 percent of the country's total slaughtering capacity, said Steve Meyer, economist for US commodity firm Kerns and Associates.... https://thepigsite.com/news/2020/04/...navirus-spread
Major US meat companies announced on Monday (7 April) that they have shut three facilities that produce pork and beef in Iowa and Pennsylvania in the latest disruption to the country's food supply chain from the coronavirus outbreak.
by The Pig Site
7 April 2020, at 10:23am
Reduced meat output from the shutdowns threatens to tighten supplies of certain products at a time when demand is rising at grocery stores as the country battles COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus.
Tyson Foods Inc shut a hog slaughterhouse in Columbus Junction, Iowa, for the week after more than 24 cases of COVID-19 involving employees at the facility, according to a statement. The company said it would divert hogs to other pork plants in an attempt to minimise the disruption from the closure.
The facility kills about 10,100 pigs a day, or about 2 percent of the country's total slaughtering capacity, said Steve Meyer, economist for US commodity firm Kerns and Associates.... https://thepigsite.com/news/2020/04/...navirus-spread
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