Labor Shortage at Poultry Facilities Drives Up Prices
America’s appetite for chicken keeps growing. Appetite for working in a chicken plant is another story.
Processors in Georgia’s $4 billion poultry industry — the largest in the country— say they are grappling with a labor shortage that is contributing to falling inventories and rising prices for consumers.
The Wayne Farms chicken processing facility in Pendergrass, about 55 miles north of Atlanta off I-85, says it had 200 openings on its production line in the first week of May, but that fewer than five people applied for jobs. It’s the same at nine other Wayne Farms plants scattered across the Southeast, with about...
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