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    Smithfield Foods closes pork plant due to impacts of coronavirus on employees

    Smithfield Foods Inc, the world's biggest pork processor, said on Thursday (9 April) it is temporarily closing a plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, because of the impacts of the coronavirus on employees.
    calendar icon 10 April 2020
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    By: The Pig Site
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    Major US meat companies announced on Monday (7 April) that they had shut three facilities that produce pork and beef in Iowa and Pennsylvania in the latest disruption to the country's food supply chain from the coronavirus outbreak

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