Economic Losses Due to Meat Processing Plants Shutdown/Slowdown

Anil K. Giri, Christine Whitt, E. Wesley Peterson and Dipak Subedi

Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 2021, vol. 36, issue 4

Abstract: Temporary closure and slowdown of meat processing plants due to the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in euthanasia or depopulation of livestock. We outline the methods of depopulation, federal programs to offset the associated costs and lost production value and estimate economic losses in 2020.

Keywords: Agribusiness; Livestock Production/Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.314656

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