The USDA on April 24 announced it was establishing a National Incident Coordination Center to provide direct support to livestock farmers impacted by processing plant closures because of COVID-19.

When several large pork processing plants shuttered last spring because workers got sick with COVID-19, it sent many who raise livestock into a panic.

A non-harvest processing facility is a plant that does not engage in the slaughter of animals, said James Mitchell, assistant professor and Extension livestock economist at the University of Arkansas.

Meat processing plants have shut down across the United States as the coronavirus has spread among workers, creating enormous bottlenecks in an inelastic supply chain. The result has been empty ...

With meat processing plants closing and reopening on a weekly, ... Unfortunately for many farmers they have no choice but to kill some of their livestock because of the system's backlog.

When Meat Plants Close Down, Farmers Have to Kill Thousands of Piglets “It’s a tremendously emotional time to be in the livestock business.” ...

But it just so happens that Denver is home to the second largest lamb processing plant in America. So for us, it was a huge issue,” Peter Orwick, American Sheep Industries executive director, said.

Cattle producers see hope in a new beef processing plant coming to southwest Iowa in 2023. Ranchers have often complained about limited choices when it’s time to sell their beef cattle.

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Today, just 28 cattle processing plants are within tribal lands. Two-thirds of those plants are in Oklahoma. More in U.S. ... Large slaughter plants were built in western Kansas, ...

The town of DeMotte previously rejected the custom-processing plant that intends to slaughter 20 to 25 head of cattle a day, as well as a few pigs, under USDA inspection.