Top Pork Producer Shuts Key Plant and Warns of Meat Shortfall
- Smithfield closes South Dakota pork facility after virus cases
- ‘Impossible’ to keep grocers stocked if plants are shut: CEO
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The world’s biggest pork producer is shuttering a major U.S. plant indefinitely after a coronavirus outbreak among employees, with the company warning that closures across the country are taking American meat supplies “perilously close to the edge” of shortfalls.