Farm Journal Live: Update on Livestock Plant Closures

Live analysis of recent livestock processing facilities due to COVID-19 from NPPC and Drovers.

Farm Journal Live
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Watch a replay of the live webcast below:

COVID-19 outbreaks have prompted Smithfield to close it’s Sioux Falls pork processing plant indefinitely. Likewise, a JBS beef processing plant in Greely, Co. has been temporarily shuttered for deep cleaning.

How will these closures impact producers? Are more closures on the horizon?

On today’s Farm Journal Live we’ll get analysis from National Pork Producers Council past president David Herring of North Carolina and Drovers editor Greg Henderson.

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