Tyson Foods plans to close a pair of facilities and sell another as part of “strategic changes to its beef operations,” the company said Thursday.
The Arkansas-based meat producer intends to shutter a beef plant in Northwest Illinois and a packaging site outside Salt Lake City, and said that it is attempting to sell its beef plant in southern Washington state, as well.
The decisions would reportedly result in about 2,500 layoffs at the Joslin, Illinois, plant and over 700 job cuts in Eagle Mountain, Utah…