Takeaways from AP’s report on a beef plant closure that threatens to unravel a small Nebraska town

Tyson Foods is closing its beef plant in Lexington, Nebraska, laying off 3,200 workers next month in a town of just 11,000.
Farm Progress

More U.S. beef plants may close as cattle herds keep shrinking

Tyson Foods Inc., the country’s biggest meatpacker, underscored the difficulties for the industry last month as it announced ...
MyNorthwest

A small town’s American Dream is at risk. What happens when its biggest employer shuts down?

On a frigid day after Mass at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in rural Nebraska, worshippers shuffled into the basement and sat on folding ...