The agency has established a coordination center to find alternative markets for livestock that can’t be processed.

Positive cases in the community and among 15 plant workers were the reasons for the action taken.

Fourteen employees have already tested positive for the virus and the company expects more.

The company reported ‘a small number’ of the 1,700 employees tested positive for COVID-19.

A growing number of meat and poultry processors are installing workstation dividers as an in-plant precaution.

Michael Uetz’s marketing firm surveys meat consumers to find out what they’re thinking during the coronavirus crisis.

The blueprint includes lessons the company has learned in the last six weeks.

The Washington facility employs more than 1,400 workers.

Recommendations to the pork processor included reducing line speeds and implementing mass-communication methods.

The company said employees would receive the bonuses the first week of July.