The Smithfield Foods’ Sioux Falls pork processing plant has been shut down indefinitely. The company announced a three-day closure last week to sanitize and implement barriers for social distancing, but that was changed to an indefinite closure over the weekend. South Dakota has 730 confirmed coronavirus cases and nearly 300 of those worked at the Smithfield plant. Smithfield President and CEO Ken Sullivan said closures like this will have “severe, perhaps disastrous, repercussions” for the livestock farmers and the rest of the supply chain.
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