Tyson Foods will shut its beef processing facility in Lexington, Nebraska, and scale back operations in Amarillo, Texas, as the company works to streamline its network amid sustained losses in its beef division and historically tight cattle supplies.
Tyson said it will assist employees affected by the closures, including helping them apply for open roles at other plants and offering relocation support.
The Lexington facility, opened in 1990 and later acquired by Tyson, is one of the larger beef plants in the United States with capacity to process roughly 5,000 head per day. The plant employs about 3,200 workers in a city of 11,000, making the closure a major economic setback for the community and the surrounding cattle industry…