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Springdale-based Tyson Foods Inc. confirmed Tuesday its closing an Arkansas poultry plant that employs more than 950 and a second plant in Virginia in the summer in a move to optimize its operations.
Tyson Foods is shutting down two poultry processing plants in Van Buren, Ark. and Glen Allen, Va. and laying off 1,700 workers as the largest U.S. chicken producer seeks to improve operations.