In a podcast produced by Roll Call, South Dakota Congressman Dusty Johnson outlined the current shutdown of the Sioux Falls pork processing plant. Johnson was asked about possible food shortages with closures like this one. “We don’t have shortages now and I don’t think we’re going to get there, but this reiterates to all Americans how important it is to keep this (processing) capacity open.” Minnesota Congressman Jim Hagedorn was part of that same podcast. Hagedorn said the plant shutdowns put a lot of pressure on the livestock producers. “We’re ending up with a lot of extra hogs and we fear that we’ll get to the point where they might need to be put down and not even used for food because of the way this is going.”
