Hog processing shutdown cancels 100 semi-truck deliveries daily

Apr 14, 2020 at 10:12 AM CST
The shutdown of a Smithfield Foods Inc. hog-processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, affects hog producers in three states and threatens the availability of 18 million servings of pork a day. The plant, which has 3,700 employees, is linked to hundreds of cases of coronavirus in the state. Laid-off workers are being paid for the next two weeks, Smithfield said. The processing plant gets 30%-35% of its hogs from 550 independent family farms in South Dakota with the rest from neighboring Iowa and Minnesota, said Glenn Muller, executive director of the South Dakota Pork Producers Council.

Apr 14, 2020 at 10:12 AM CST

The shutdown of a Smithfield Foods Inc. hog-processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, affects hog producers in three states and threatens the availability of 18 million servings of pork a day. The plant, which has 3,700 employees, is linked to hundreds of cases of coronavirus in the state. Laid-off workers are being paid for the next two weeks, Smithfield said. The processing plant gets 30%-35% of its hogs from 550 independent family farms in South Dakota with the rest from neighboring Iowa and Minnesota, said Glenn Muller, executive director of the South Dakota Pork Producers Council.