Excel Beef Packers , Close Plaiview, Tx Plant

John A. · Feb 1, 2013

Don't Know if Y'all heard But Excel Beef Packers Closed their Plainview,Tx. Processing plant This Week!!. 1600 jobs just went down the drain. 1/10 of total jobs in Plainview and Hale County Tx, Ouch!
This plant was one of Excels most modern, automated, state of the art plants...BIL was Head of Maintenance, "All" Refrigeration, Automation, Electrical,everything until he retired 5 yrs ago. Closed....Due to lack of cattle in the region due to the On Going Drought, If it started raining Today it would take 5 good yrs of rain to get cattle #s back to where it should be. Not a good thing at all for any town in any State under any Circumstances. Thought Y'all might like to know.
We are still in a Drought here in Texas, Thunder if We had only had what the Mid-west had last year we would be home free, By now. This country is Dry as a powder house, Springs, Draws, Creeks, and Rivers that should be running...Are Not,... No Relief in sight...... yet!
Later,
John A.

Rick in Iowa · Feb 2, 2013

in eastern iowa were about 15 inches behind on rain,creeks,rivers dry here too

CAROGATOR · Feb 2, 2013

Everything needs to dry out some before being destroyed by fire. If you believe.

ss55 · Feb 2, 2013

It could just be a short to mid-term closing due to excess capacity in a location to remote from the current cattle markets.

Is Excel removing the equipment and selling the building or are they just temporarily closing it for a few years until the local cattle indudustry gets stonger? Are the younger local cattle producers leaving the business for good or are they just cutting back until they have enough feed for their normal size herds again.

Either way the plant closing will be hard on the local economy. When they reopen it will be interesting if they hire locals or if they bring in east europeans like other packing plants are doing in the poultry industry.

Dick · Feb 2, 2013

More unemployment for American workers. Well maybe American workers, or possibly Mexican workers. Would be interesting to know how many of those employees were legal to work in the US.
I'm sure the numbers will be much higher for those loosing their jobs when you figure all jobs related to the plant. Truck drivers, other suppliers to the plant. When one plant shuts down it always affects much more than just those employees.
Sad, but it's happening all over the USA. This just makes a good excuse to import meat from other countries, something we don't need. Would be interesting to know how much of the meat in the grocery stores is imported meat from places like Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.

Dr. Walt · Feb 2, 2013

Just think, if we lived in Samoa we'd be getting about 14 inches of RAIN this month. I wonder if they could EXPORT some to us, but knowing how things work here they would probably hold it in CUSTOMS until it dried up.

retired farmer · Feb 2, 2013

Why would they want to hire Americans when they can import foreign labor? Know a guy who used to work for a pest control company. Said the bed bug population used to be about zero in Greeley,Colorado until Swift started importing all those foreigners, they bring in bed bugs with their belongings.

old_bc · Feb 2, 2013

An article in today's paper stated that the US cattle heard is the smallest since 1952.

Harley Fender · Feb 3, 2013

Job security, bring in your own bugs.

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