Small Beef-packer Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence and Policy Implications
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: As part of a larger research project on the economics of beef supply chain resilience to natural disasters, financed in part by a grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, we obtained information from 289 processing plants across the United States about their operations during the peak COVID-19 period of March to June 2020 via a telephone survey. We collected data on plant type (slaughter, processing, both), the dominant livestock processed by the plant (predominantly beef, pork, poultry, and sheep/goat), plant capacity (maximum and typical capacity in slaughter head/day), age of establishment, and, whether the plant ceased, reduced, maintained, or increased slaughter during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Source: Lincoln (University of Nebraska)
Authors: Azzam, Azzeddine, Dhoubadel, Sunil P., Khanal, Binod
Language: English
Subfield: Strategy and Management
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7052848778
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