Food manufacturing closures are among the clearest signs of labor-market pressure. And while a plant closure is a company ...

America’s cattle shortage is pushing meatpackers to shut plants, cut shifts, and rethink how much processing capacity the industry actually needs. JBS, the world’s largest meat processing company, ...

JBS, the world's largest meatpacker, is preparing to close a beef-processing plant in Pennsylvania, the latest facility to close as a cattle shortage in the U.S. squeezes meatpacking companies. The ...

Concrete barricades blocked the entrance to the Cargill beef plant in Ft. Morgan, Colo., on May 20. About 1,700 workers had been locked out by the company after months of contract negotiations ended ...

Tyson Foods plans to lay off more than 1,700 shift workers at its beef processing plant in Amarillo, Texas, early next year as the U.S. meat industry faces tight cattle supplies and labor woes. Tyson ...