CHICAGO - Major meat companies in the United States and Canada have closed plants temporarily due to cases of the new coronavirus and concerns about its spread.* JBS USA [JBS.
UL] shut a beef plant in Souderton, Pennsylvania, until April 16, after previously cutting production.* JBS reduced production a beef plant in Greeley, Colorado, due to high absences among workers, according to the local United Food and Commercial Workers union. The company said high absenteeism led slaughter rates to outpace the process of cutting carcasses into pieces.* National Beef Packing Co [NBEEF.
Story continues* Sanderson Farms Inc reduced chicken production to 1 million birds a week from 1.3 million at a plant in Moultrie, Georgia.
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