U.S. pork supply or will be in short supply? The outbreak escalated, Cargy, Tyson, Smithfield and other international meat giants have closed their factories!

; Smithfield, the world's largest pork processor, has closed a major U.S. plant indefinitely after employees were found to be infected with coronavirus, the world's largest pork processor said on April 13, Beijing time, after 238 employees were infected with the new crown.
the company warned that plant closures across the country would put U.S. meat supplies "dangerously close to the brink of shortages."
smithfield has announced the closure of a pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Carolina, for three days to stop the spread of the new coronary pneumonia virus.
, South Dakota Governor Noam 11, revealed that Smithfield Foods' Sioux Falls plant in the state has 238 employees infected with new crown pneumonia.
, this company alone accounts for more than 55 percent of the state's total infections.
's closure would be a serious, even devastating blow to the U.S. pork food supply chain, Smithfield CEO John Sullivan said in a statement.
on the one hand affect the supply of meat in retail stores, on the other hand, farmers are unable to supply livestock to processing plants as originally planned.
is understood to be one of the largest pork processing plants in the United States, accounting for 4 to 5 percent of total U.S. pork production, supplying nearly 130 million meat products a week to the market, and more than 550 U.S. family farmers supply livestock to the plant.
south Dakota Department of Health, the region has identified 19 new coronary pneumonia virus outbreak "hot spots."
but there is no reliable information on the outbreak.
U.S. food supply chain became more difficult as the outbreak of the new corona pneumonia virus continued to rage, a number of international meat processing companies have reported employee feelings, closing factories.
addition to Smithfield Foods, workers in other parts of the U.S. food supply chain are also getting sick, and the normal supply of meat protein is facing challenges.
major U.S. meat and poultry processors, including Tyson Foods Inc. and Cargill Inc., according to the Wall Street Journal. Some factories have also been temporarily suspended due to a small number of employees infected with the new coronavirus.
: Two workers at a poultry factory died of neo-crown pneumonia, according to RWDSU.
is known to have 2,000 workers at the plant, many of whom are sick or isolated.
Tyson Foods said Monday it has suspended operations at its pork plant near the Columbus border in Iowa this week after more than two dozen cases of the new coronal pneumonia virus, and that pigs being shipped to the plant will be transferred to other pork processing plants in the region.
Steve Meyer, an economist at Kerns and Associates, the plant slaughters 101,000 pigs a day, or about 2 percent of the total U.S. slaughter capacity.
, chief executive of Tyson Foods, said: "We are working hard to provide enough masks for our production workers.
, tyson's poultry and other meat processing plants are being affected to varying degrees by the implementation of prevention and control measures and staff absences.
. JBS: A worker at a beef production plant died of neo-crown pneumonia, according to local news reports.
reported that 15 of the more than 6,000 employees at the JBS plant in the U.S. have tested positive for the new corona pneumonia virus, and hundreds of beef production workers at the plant have resigned.
report from the U.S. Government, JBS has suspended operations at its beef plant in Suddon, Pennsylvania, and is tentatively scheduled to reopen next Thursday.
like other meat processors, JBS has taken a series of measures to protect its employees, including increasing the cleaning of facilities and relaxing attendance policies.
: Closed its plant in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, until it was safe Cargies closed its plant in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday and said it would reopen as soon as possible until it was completely safe.
225,000 square feet and employs 900 people, mainly producing beef and pork products.
"Although the plant is temporarily closed, our work will not stop and we are working with farmers, farmers, customers and employees to ensure food availability and market operations in times of crisis," Jon Nash of Cargies North America said in a statement.
: Suspended operations of Brampton poultry plant Canadian food processor Maple Leaf Foods announced on the morning of the 8th, will suspend the operation of poultry plants in Brampton, Ontario.
's Maple Leaf Foods Brampton plant was suspended after one of its employees tested positive for the new coronary pneumonia virus.
officials said in a press release that three new cases of coronary pneumonia virus in the facility are under investigation.
the press release also said maple leaf foods were deeply cleaning factories, including public areas and offices, while the investigation was being completed.
the plant will not do production again until it is confirmed that its employees can return to work safely and healthy.
In addition, a worker at another Maple Leaf Foods plant tested positive for the new coronary pneumonia virus, but Maple Leaf Foods said the worker was no longer working at the plant two weeks before the diagnosis and that the plant had completed hygiene and safety work and was operational.
U.S. pig futures were down nearly 50 percent at $42.80 in January 2020 at $89.95 a barrel.
fell from $66.42 to $40.22 in the 10 days from March 24 to April 3, showing a free-fall decline.
the decline in pig prices in the United States have an impact on pork prices in China? Last year, China's total meat imports reached 4.82 million tons, up 58% YoY, of which pork imports nearly 2 million tons, up 67% YoY.
January to February this year, China imported 1.25 million tons of meat (including debris), up 69.6% yoY, of which 720,000 tons of imported pork and pig debris, up 98.2% YoY.
2019, China's pork production was 42.55 million tons, data show that less than a million tons of U.S. pork imports relative to a small part.
also affected by the new crown outbreak, some experts predicted: "The decline in U.S. pig futures prices only affected their own domestic pig farming, but also can not have an impact on China's pigs."
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