date:Jul 31, 2014
Cargill plans to close the company's Milwaukee, Wis. beef harvest facility by Aug. 1. Approximately 600 employees will be affected.
In a statement, the company said producers are retaining cattle for herd expansion resulting in tight supplies of cattle. The ground-beef plant at the Milwaukee site will remain open. Cargills six other beef plants won't be affected by the harvest plant closure.
Closing our Milwaukee beef plant is taking place only after we conducted an 18-month-long analysis of t