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Amarillo Plant Loses Entire Evening Shift
The layoffs begin January 20, 2026, and they will hit one of the Texas Panhandle’s largest employers. Tyson Foods is eliminating its entire B-shift at the Amarillo beef plant, cutting 1,761 workers in a single sweep.
Many of those employees are refugees who moved to Amarillo specifically for these jobs. The announcement came just before Thanksgiving, and the timing left families scrambling to figure out what comes next.
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Nebraska Plant Closes Completely
Amarillo is not alone. Tyson is also shutting down its beef plant in Lexington, Nebraska, on the same day, eliminating 3,200 more jobs.
That facility processed nearly 5,000 cattle per day, roughly 5% of the nation’s total beef slaughter capacity. Together, the two closures remove up to 8,000 head of daily processing from the market…