{"id":96172,"date":"2025-12-16T03:07:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/96172\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T03:07:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:07:19","slug":"jbs-is-closing-a-california-meat-packing-facility-in-riverside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/96172\/","title":{"rendered":"JBS is closing a California meat-packing facility in Riverside"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The meat processing company JBS is closing a packing facility in Riverside and will lay off 374 employees, according to a notice from the California Employment Development Department<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The closure comes as a limited cattle supply has led to record-high beef prices this year. <\/p>\n

The Riverside facility, operated by JBS subsidiary Swift Beef Co., prepares meat for sale in U.S. grocery stores but does not slaughter animals, JBS spokesperson Nikki Richardson said. <\/p>\n

The affected employees will be given opportunities at other JBS plants<\/a>, including relocation support, Richardson said. Employees who choose not to relocate will be given a 60-day notice period before their employment ends. <\/p>\n

The price of beef has soared in recent months as ranchers have cut their herds due to a drought across pastureland and a parasite known as screwworm, which forced a halt to U.S. imports of Mexican cattle. Last month, meat processing giant<\/a> Tyson Foods closed one if its largest beef-processing facilities in Nebraska. <\/p>\n

JBS said production handled at the Riverside plant will be transferred to other company facilities without interrupting customer supply or service. <\/p>\n

The transition is expected to be complete by early next year, the company said. <\/p>\n

\u201cJBS is committed to supporting impacted team members through this transition,\u201d Richardson said in a statement. \u201cThe company remains focused on delivering high-quality products and dependable service while strengthening its operational footprint to meet evolving market demands.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Riverside plant closure is part of a broader company strategy to optimize and simplify its operations. Shares of JBS were down less than 1% in midday trading Monday and have remained flat this year, rising about 2% since January. <\/p>\n

The company, which has a U.S. headquarters in Greeley, Colo., also has facilities<\/a> and offices throughout Europe and Australia. <\/p>\n

The landscape is shifting in California\u2019s oil industry as well, with Valero Energy Corp. planning to shut down a major refinery in the state by spring 2026. <\/p>\n

Last year, Chevron moved its headquarters from San Ramon, Calif., to Houston, citing challenging business regulations in the Golden State. This year, the last factory that turned sugar beets<\/a> into sugar in California shut down, leading to the elimination of hundreds of jobs in the Imperial Valley.<\/p>\n

According to a Chapman University economic forecast released this month, California\u2019s job growth totaled just 2% from the second quarter of 2022 to the second quarter this year, ranking it 48th among all states. <\/p>\n

The state lost jobs consecutively from June to September. Also, next year the state is expected to add 62,000 jobs.<\/p>\n

California also experienced a net population outflow of more than 1 million residents from 2021 to 2023, with the top five destinations being states with zero or very low state income taxes: Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho and Florida, the report noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The meat processing company JBS is closing a packing facility in Riverside and will lay off 374 employees,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,1804,828,4915,52785,4194,9925,52786,22558,8634,4747,225,52788,52787,72],"class_list":["post-96172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-company","tag-employee","tag-hundred","tag-jbs","tag-job","tag-last-month","tag-packing-facility","tag-plant-closure","tag-riverside","tag-service","tag-state","tag-sugar-beet","tag-u-s-import","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}