Butterball is announcing significant changes to the manufacturing operations at its Carthage, Missouri processing plant as the company works to balance its operations at the facility to better align with the products consumers demand. Long-term adverse conditions in the commodities market, where Butterball has routinely sold excess protein produced at the facility, has resulted in the need to ramp down certain production processes at this location.

This ramp-down in specific manufacturing operations at the Carthage facility will take place over the course of several months, beginning no sooner than March 1, 2021. The plant will continue to produce ground turkey and turkey burgers. The change will impact approximately 450 total Butterball team members, including approximately 400 team members represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 2 (UFCW). In addition, the change will impact a limited number of turkey growers in the Midwest, however, Butterball does not anticipate reduction in the Carthage-area growers at this time.