National Beef Packing Co. has announced that it will lay off 283 workers in its plant in Moultrie, Ga., as well as 150 workers at a facility in Hummel’s Wharf, Pa.
Beef production in the United States is expected to decrease 4.8 percent in 2013, the second largest year-over-year decrease in 35 years, trailing only the 6.4 percent drop in 2004.