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National Beef also owns and operates a slaughterhouse and beef packing plant in Liberal with a capacity of processing 6,000 cattle per day [9] and employing about 3,500 people. That number of employees comprises about one-third of the total employed work force in Seward County where Liberal is located. [10]
The William Davies Company facilities in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, circa 1920. This facility was then the third largest hog-packing plant in North America. The meat-packing industry (also spelled meatpacking industry or meat packing industry) handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of meat from animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock.
Iowa Beef Processors, Inc., later became IBP, Inc. Occidental Petroleum owned IBP from 1981 to 1987, and was the majority owner from 1987 to 1991. [2] [3] [a] IBP was acquired by Tyson Foods in 2001 for US$3.2 billion in cash and stock. [8] Tyson continues to use the IBP name as a brand for its commodity beef and pork products. [9]
National Beef is the U.S.'s fourth largest beef processor, with sales exceeding $7 billion annually. [15] National Beef products are available to national and regional retailers, including supermarket chains, independent grocers, club stores, wholesalers and distributors, foodservice providers and distributors, further processors and the U.S. military. [16]
In 2007, JBS went through with a US$225m acquisition of U.S. firm Swift & Company, [12] which was the third largest U.S. beef and pork processor, renamed as JBS USA. It leads the world in slaughter capacity, at 51.4 thousand head per day, and continues to focus on production operations, processing, and export plants, nationally and internationally.
With almost all of Texas in drought, ranchers are sending ever more cattle off to slaughter, a trend likely to increase beef prices over the long term due to dwindling supply from the largest ...
Starting in the 1980s, Cargill, Conagra Brands, Tyson Foods and other large food companies moved most slaughterhouse operations to rural areas of the Southern United States which were more hostile to unionization efforts. [56] Slaughterhouses in the United States commonly illegally employ and exploit underage workers and undocumented immigrants.
Union stockyards in the United States were centralized urban livestock yards where multiple rail lines delivered animals from ranches and farms for slaughter and meat packing. A stockyard company managed the work of unloading the livestock, which was faster and more efficient than using railway staff. [ 1 ]