The closure, Aug. 16 -- The $300 million beef processing plant that Tyson Foods Inc. opened here in 2021, billed as a long-term anchor for one of Utah's fastest-growing counties, will close. The company confirmed Friday that 723 positions at the Eagle Mountain facility are being eliminated, the single largest worker impact in a network restructuring that reflects just how severely the national cattle shortage has reshaped the economics of large-scale beef production.

Dakota City, Nebraska; Holcomb, Kansas; and Amarillo, Texas - and shed plants that lack proximity to the shrinking supply of fed cattle. Eagle Mountain, a case-ready operation that processes pre-packaged beef and pork cuts for retail chains, was not among those the company c...