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Smithfield Foods to shutter 35 hog farms in Missouri

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Smithfield Foods is closing down 35 hog farm sites in Missouri.

The decision means 92 layoffs, according to a notice filed with the state. The filing listed 13 sites in Newtown, Missouri; 12 in Lucerne, Missouri; and 10 in Princeton, Missouri.

Smithfield Foods is the world’s biggest pork processor, according to Reuters.

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