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Swift & Company to close Idaho plant

09/08/2005

The Nampa plant employed 408 people, down from 560 in May 2003 when the US border was closed to live Canadian cattle after a single case of BSE was first discovered in Canada. Despite last month’s decision to reopen the US border to live Canadian cattle under 30 months of age, the Nampa plant struggled to find sufficient cows as it processed older animals.

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