I wouldn’t read too much into this. Tyson owns 123 food processing plants, so this represents about 3% of that total.
Plants get old, equipment gets outdated, the value of the land rises, plants get moved and replaced. Competition grows.
There could be all kinds of reasons for them to do this, and none of them doomsday-worthy.
Uh..I do not believe that is quite accurate.
In total, Tyson Foods operates 140 chicken facilities from hatchery to feed mills to kill and cook plants.
Tyson Foods also leads in the number of further-processing plants at 16.
https://www.thepoultryfederation.com/news/436-tyson-foods-the-largest-u-s-chicken-processor-in-2019
So shutting down 4 of 16 plants for chicken doesn’t seem too good to me.
And PS...they shut down two other plants in May and have been cutting
Tyson in May closed two other chicken plants with almost 1,700 employees.
In April, Tyson said it would eliminate about 10% of corporate jobs and 15% of senior leadership roles. The company also laid off corporate employees in Chicago and South Dakota who declined to relocate to Tyson’s headquarters in Arkansas.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/tyson-foods-shut-four-more-us-chicken-plants-2023-08-07/
The North Little Rock plant has been there a while I believe.
Then again, it could be Deep State.
Trust but verify is a good idea.
My cousins live in Arkansas Springdale/Bentonville area. You drive around and see empty chicken houses with new ones going up down the street….every day.