Iowa Select Farms expanding finishing capacity after supply chain disaster | Successful Farming

Iowa Select Farms, the fourth-largest pork producer in the U.S., says it is recovering from meat supply chain interruptions that forced it to euthanize thousands of pigs as packing plants were closed or running at lower capacity when workers became ill during the COVID-19 pandemic.The meatpacking plants have recovered much more quickly than anticipated and are operating at more than 90% capacity today, says communications director Jen Sorensen. “This helps tremendously in alleviating the backlog of pigs o

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