Jobs at this county's largest employer have attracted families, boosted enrollment in area schools and in a ripple effect, helped create more jobs in the region. But layoffs are now on the horizon.
Getting the call about Smithfield Foods, said Milford Mayor Nolan Davis, was “devastating.”
Smithfield is blaming the cost of doing business in California, where it will close the plant that processes hogs from Utah. So that’s where county and state leaders are starting their battle to keep Smithfield producing here — by suggesting that Utah find a way to build a large hog processing plant somewhere in the state.
Smithfield Foods said it will move some operations to plants in the Midwest. But, Buttars said, “it doesn’t really make very much sense for us to raise hogs here and ship them back to the Midwest ... for processing.” Hog harvesting and processing operations at the California facility employ about 1,800 people, Smithfield Foods said in a news release, and it will close in February. Utility costs alone are 3.5 times higher at the Vernon plant, about 4 miles south of Los Angeles, than in other states where Smithfield operates, Vice President of Corporate Affairs Jim Monroe“This was something that was beyond our control,” Whitney said Friday.
The Beaver County School District is already trying to estimate how the layoffs will affect its enrollment. “Oh, I’ve been doing math all weekend,” Superintendent David Long said Monday. “And where we would lose them would be critical, too,” he said. “Obviously, we would expect to be impacted more over in the Milford community,” where the Smithfield hog farm is located, about 22 miles northwest of Beaver, the county seat.
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