BY JOHN HACKER news@joplinglobe.com Dec 9, 2020 2 min to read CARTHAGE, Mo. â Butterball LLC announced on Wednesday that it will cut its Carthage plant workforce by a little more than half. A news release that Butterball sent out announced that 450 people out of a current workforce of 850 at the plant will be laid off over several months starting no sooner than March 1, 2021. âButterball is announcing significant changes to the manufacturing operations at its Carthage, Missouri, processing plant as the company works to balance its operations at the f...