The company will begin to ramp down certain operations at its Carthage Missouri facility in March 2021.

The company’s cook and cold storage facilities in its Market Street building will be shut down within the next two weeks.

Northern Beef Packers laid off 108 workers last week because of a lack of working capital to buy and process cattle, plant officials said.

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.

The company will close its food production plants in Springfield, Ohio and Bidwell, Ohio, in late summer 2013.

Kraft Foods announced several moves to help ensure its North America-based snacks and grocery businesses are well-positioned to become two independent public companies before the end of 2012.