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Rural Route with Trent Loos: Jay Truitt Breaks Down Beef Plant Closures and Industry Shake-Ups

Description of Episode (100 words): Trent Loos welcomes cattle market expert Jay Truitt from Texas for a hard-hitting breakdown of the beef industry's biggest shake-ups. They dig into major beef plant closures, including Tyson's shutdowns and the threatened closure of the Jocelyn, Illinois plant that could devastate cattle feeders across the Northeast. Jay explains the dangerous imbalance between prime beef production and shrinking lean trimmings supply, why small rendering operations almost always fail, and how large packing plants hold a massive financial edge over competitors. They also expose why the USDA's $7.5 million cold storage grant falls drastically short of fixing America's beef processing crisis.

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Jay Truitt
Trent Loos
cattle feeders
Tyson beef plants
JBS Swift
rendering economics
lean beef shortage
Fort Morgan plant
beef industry supply chain

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