Tag: pork supply

• Monday, April 13th 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  US pork supply “on the edge”: Smithfield Foods shutters South Dakota major plant indefinitely

  

  The world's biggest pork producer is shuttering a major United States plant indefinitely after a coronavirus outbreak among employees, with the company warning that closures across the country are taking American meat supplies “perilously close to the edge” of shortfalls.