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Articles tagged under: Smithfield Foods

Smithfield Hit With COVID-Related Fine

Published September 11, 2020

The Labor Department has fined Smithfield Foods’ Sioux Falls plant for not adequately protecting its employees during a coronavirus outbreak. Nearly 1,300 workers got sick and four people died. Smithfield faces a fine of $13,500, which is the maximum allowed…
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Working Through the Hog Backlog

Published July 17, 2020

The Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Sioux Falls is operating at 95 percent of capacity. South Dakota Pork Producers Council Executive Director Glen Muller says the plant is adding Saturdays to the slaughter schedule to work through the backlog…
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Packing Plants Start to Reopen

Published May 10, 2020

The week of May 3, 14 meatpacking plants resumed operations across the U.S. Three are located in the Northern Plains including the Smithfield Foods plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the JBS plant in Worthington, Minnesota and the Jennie-O Turkey…
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A Mental Toll on Producers

Published May 6, 2020

The JBS packing plant in Worthington and the Smithfield Foods plant in Sioux Falls have reopened on a limited basis. There is a significant backlog of hogs with estimates of 10,000 animals being put down on a daily basis in…
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A Matter of Days

Published May 1, 2020

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem spoke with President Donald Trump Thursday. There was also a conversation with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue "about our pork producers and about getting our plants back on line in South Dakota." That conversation was followed…
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CDC Releases Final Report for Smithfield in Sioux Falls

Published April 23, 2020

A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the Smithfield Foods processing plant in Sioux Falls has been released. Following visits to the plant on April 16 and 17, the CDC is recommending Smithfield implement further hygiene…
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MN Hog Market in a “Tough Situation”

Published April 17, 2020

Minnesota Agriculture Commissioner Thom Petersen says Minnesota's hog market is in a tough situation. "A few of our hogs in Minnesota go to Smithfield Foods in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. We're trying to find homes for those hogs on the…
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Smithfield Closing Raises Questions About Food Security

Published April 17, 2020

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…
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Smithfield Plant Closing Has Domino Effect

Published April 16, 2020

With their Sioux Falls plant closed, Smithfield Foods shut down two other facilities. The Cudahy, Wisconsin plant processes bacon and sausage and the Martin City, Missouri plant processes hams. That work cannot be done without the daily supply of hogs…
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Officials are Taking Steps to Safely Reopen SD Plant

Published April 15, 2020

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue says he is working with South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem and Smithfield Foods to reopen the Sioux Falls pork plant. Noem says employee health and keeping families fed are a priority. "We do have increased cases,…
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