JBS closes beef plant in Pennsylvania due to cattle shortage in the US.

JBS announced this Friday (12) that it has closed operations at its beef plant in Pennsylvania and at a higher value-added products factory in Memphis, Tennessee, due to the cattle shortage in the United States. The company had already announced at the end of last year that it would close operations at a unit in California. The crisis in American livestock farming also affects other companies in the sector, such as Tyson Foods and Cargill, which closed factories in Nebraska and Milwaukee, respectively, this year. According to data from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the American cattle herd is at its lowest level in 75 years. The crisis could worsen with the arrival, at the beginning of this month, of the New World blowfly (NWS) in the country after more than six decades.

This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.