JBS USA to Close Swift Riverside, California, Case-Ready Beef Plant

Another beef processing facility will bite the dust, it appears, as JBS USA will close a case-ready beef facility in Riverside, Calif., according to a report from Reuters.

The move to shutter the Swift Beef Co. facility on Feb. 2, 2026, will result in 374 people losing their jobs, and comes less than a month after Tyson Foods announced the closing of its Lexington, Neb., beef facility. That Tyson plant is not a case-ready facility, but its shutdown is a huge hit to the industry; and in fact, rumors had floated a bit about Nebraska’s governor discussing the possibility of turning it into a value-added facility of some sort. That closure is putting some 3,200 people out of work.

The Swift Riverside facility, which sits in the Los Angeles metro area, does not carry out slaughter operations, and a company spokesperson told Reuters it was not closing due to low cattle supplies. Instead, it is a move to optimize the case-ready and value-added business and simplify network operations, the report said.

On JBS USA’s pork side of the business, the company announced in May 2025 that it would build a fresh sausage plant in Perry, Iowa. Then, in August, the company said it would purchase and renovate an Ankeny, Iowa, production facility to become the company’s largest ready-to-eat bacon and RTE sausage plant in the U.S.

Production from the Riverside beef facility will be shifted to other company sites, and workers will be eligible for jobs elsewhere in the company.