U.S. chicken producer Perdue Farms will permanently shut a Monterey, Tennessee, processing plant on March 28, eliminating jobs for 433 employees, the company said on Friday. It is the latest loss for poultry workers, with Tyson Foods having shuttered six U.S. chicken plants since 2023 after struggling to match production with consumer demand.

Perdue Farms is set to close a chicken production plant in Monterey, Tennessee and will lay off more than 400 workers, the company confirmed to Agriculture Dive on Tuesday.

Several hundred workers at Perdue Farms will soon be without a job after the company announced on Thursday it is closing the Putnam County facility. Once one of the leading poultry producers in the country,

Learn more about the company's decision that came after a strategic business and financial review of the plant’s performance.

PUTNAM COUNTY, Tenn. (WZTV) — Perdue Farms is closing their Monterey plant, the Putnam County mayor announced Thursday night. The closure will leave 433 employees out of a job. Randy Porter, the mayor of Putnam County, says the plant has been a part of Monterey and the county's economy for numerous years.

Perdue Farms plans to close a processing plant in Tennessee that employs more than 430 people. In a news release Thursday, the company confirmed that the Monterey facility would close in late March. It said changes in market demand and how the company produces and supplies its products have affected the Monterey plant in

MONTEREY, TENN. – Poultry processor Perdue Farms plans to close a processing plant in Monterey, Tenn., on March 28 which includes 433 people being laid off, according to reports by the Putnam County Mayor Randy Porter and the Cookeville-Putnam County Chamber of Commerce.

US chicken producer Perdue Farms will permanently shut a Monterey, Tennessee, processing plant on March 28, eliminating jobs for 433 employees, Reuters reported, citing the company on Friday.

MONTEREY, Tenn. (AP) — Perdue Farms plans to close a processing plant in Tennessee that employs more than 430 people. In a news release Thursday, the company confirmed that the Monterey facility ...

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Perdue Farms will incorporate the NestBorn approach of hatching day-old chicks in broiler barns following successful tests of the technology in 2023. “In our mission to responsibly raise animals for food, we always are looking for continuous improvement of animal welfare,” said Bruce Stewart Brown, chief science officer for Perdue Farms.