Jay Jandrain, president and CEO of Butterball, announced that production at the Carthage, MO. turkey plant will be scaled back resulting in 450 workforce redundancies. In a company statement, the justification for the change was stated to be “long-term adverse conditions in the commodities market, where Butterball has routinely sold excess protein produced at the facility resulting in the need to ramp down certain production processes at this location”.
Employees who will be displaced will be offered job openings at Huntsville and Ozark, AR plants.