Shrinking herd leads Cargill to close beef facility
31/07/2014
Around 600 people are employed at the site, but the company said the ground beef plant will remain open, employing approximately 200.
Cargill purchased the plant in 2001 and it has a processing capacity of 1,300 to 1,400 animals per day.
“Closing our Milwaukee beef plant is taking place only after we conducted an 18-month-long analysis of the region’s cattle supply and examined all other possible options,” said John Keating, president of Cargill Beef.
“It is unfortunate that we must close any beef plant because of the impact to good people, their families and the community. The harsh reality is that the US beef cattle herd is at its lowest level since 1951, with any significant herd expansion being years away.”
The company’s six remaining US beef processing plants – in California, Texas, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska and Pennsylvania – are unaffected.
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