Flames were seen from the roof of a JBS beef packing plant west of Omaha late Sunday night. For the industry, it raises concern as recent market disruption issues in the cattle market appear to have ignited after a 2019 fire at the JBS facility in Holcomb, Kansas.
Just one week after opening a new $68 million facility in Moberly, Missouri, JBS was struck by a ransomware attack Tuesday that shutdown 13 packing plants across the United States.
As cattlemen and industry representatives become exhausted with the disconnect between prices paid to sellers and record profits for meat packers, one senator has called on the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold a hearing on the possible improper and anti-competitive activity in the cattle market.
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