Meat packing plants altering production
National Beef Packing Company, JBS USA and Tyson Foods all reporting some impacts to processing operations.
National Beef Packing Company, JBS USA and Tyson Foods are all reporting some impacts to their processing operations as a result of COVID-19.
Tyson Foods chief executive officer Noel White announced Monday that the company had suspended operations at its Columbus Junction, Iowa, pork plant due to more than two dozen cases of COVID-19 involving team members at the facility. However, he noted that the livestock originally scheduled for delivery to Columbus Junction were getting diverted to other Tyson pork plants in the region “to minimize the impact on our overall production.”
National Beef told Feedstuffs its Iowa Premium beef processing facility in Tama, Iowa had moved its regularly scheduled plant cleanup to the week of April 6. The move came after an employee recently tested positive for COVID-19.