Northwest's Largest Beef Plant Goes Up for Sale, Farmers Blame State Rules
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Tyson Foods announced it is pursuing a sale of its Pasco-area beef plant—the Pacific Northwest's largest—while pivoting its beef operations toward plants in Nebraska, Kansas and Texas; Washington farmers say state costs, taxes and regulation helped push the facility toward sale and warn that losing it would halve regional slaughter capacity and hurt ranchers and local consumers.
Topics:business#economy#pasco-beef-plant#regulation-costs#slaughter-capacity#tyson-foods#washington-agriculture
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