A farmer speaks
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The food supply chain is breaking
The board chairman of Tyson Foods is warning that "millions of pounds of meat will disappear" from the national food supply chain as the coronavirus outbreak forces food processing plants to shutter.
"The food supply chain is breaking," John Tyson wrote in a full-page advertisement published Sunday in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
"There will be limited supply of our products available in grocery stores until we are able to reopen our facilities that are currently closed," he wrote in the advertisement, which was also published as a blog post on the company's website.
In recent weeks, the major poultry producer has temporarily suspended operations at plants across the country. The company halted operations Wednesday at an Iowa plant that is crucial to the nation's pork supply.
“The food supply chain is breaking,” Tyson Foods warns in a full page ad in NYT today pic.twitter.com/5cyusH6L9V
— Ana Swanson (@AnaSwanson) April 26, 2020
"In addition to meat shortages, this is a serious food waste issue. Farmers across the nation simply will not have anywhere to sell their livestock to be processed, when they could have fed the nation," John Tyson wrote."Millions of animals — chickens, pigs and cattle — will be depopulated because of the closure of our processing facilities," he added.
Four employees of Tyson's operations in rural southwest Georgia died earlier this month after becoming infected with the coronavirus, a company spokesman told The Associated Press.
Tyson has told NBC News that it is taking steps to protect its workers, including installing dividers between workers and relaxing its attendance policy to allow sick workers to stay home.
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I have a brother who lives nearby and was a butcher for 40 years. Push comes to shove, we can buy a cow, pig, whatever and be good to go for a while.
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Completed my beefalo order today because of this. I added a bit more on for friends, bought about 25 lbs of various pork, but chicken was already low. No whole birds to be found, I bought 3 lbs of breast and pre-ordered a half dozen birds for June. I’m going to miss chicken...
Think I will get a couple more packs of ribs tomorrow.
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Also signed up for a 18 farm fresh eggs a week.
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@kluurs said in A farmer speaks:
@Larry said in A farmer speaks:
I've got tons of beef.... fresh too.
BBQ at Larry's this summer.
You'll have to shoot the cow...
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@kluurs said in A farmer speaks:
@Larry said in A farmer speaks:
I've got tons of beef.... fresh too.
BBQ at Larry's this summer.
You'll have to shoot the cow...
@Larry said in A farmer speaks:
@kluurs said in A farmer speaks:
@Larry said in A farmer speaks:
I've got tons of beef.... fresh too.
BBQ at Larry's this summer.
You'll have to shoot the cow...
IOW, you'll have to invite Jolly.
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Probably going to have to bypass a whole bunch of safety regulations...
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Can we get Ford to quit building ventilators and start building machines to harvest these animals?
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Can we get Ford to quit building ventilators and start building machines to harvest these animals?
@LuFins-Dad said in A farmer speaks:
Can we get Ford to quit building ventilators and start building machines to harvest these animals?
Yeah. Funny about that.All the ventilator hysteria has really pissed me off. Trump is still talking about it today.
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22 million unemployed and we can’t get these animals butchered and move the line?
Right now it’s chicken, Pork in a week, Dairy within a month, and beef to follow. Produce in the fall and winter...
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