Lexington closure signifies a structural shift in the beef packing industry, not a temporary disruption like earlier plant ...

About 3,200 of Lexington, Nebraska’s 11,000 residents work at a huge Tyson Foods beef processing plant — for another month.

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

The announcement that Tyson would shutter a massive beef processing plant in Nebraska was the first such closure in more than a decade. Beef processors are running at lower capacity, as the U.S.

The ramifications of Tyson Foods Inc.'s decision to shutter its beef processing facility in Lexington, Neb., are more than a ...

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

The largest U.S. meatpacker is shrinking its beef footprint again, closing two more facilities just as the national cattle ...

NEBRASKA Beef plant’s closure could ripple OMAHA — Tyson Foods’ decision to close a beef plant that employs nearly one third ...

A worker uses a high-pressure jet of water in the second part of the exterior washing process at the Tyson meat packing plant in Lexington, Neb., Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007. (Kent Sievers/Omaha ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Tyson Foods' decision to close a beef plant that employs nearly one third of residents of Lexington, Nebraska, could devastate the small city and undermine the profits of ranchers ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Tyson Foods’ decision to close a beef plant that employs nearly one-third of the residents of Lexington, Nebraska, could devastate the small city and undermine the profits of ...