ICE Raids Meatpacking Plant | USDA to Reorganize Hubs | Smallest U.S. Cattle Herd in 50+ Years
- Michelle Pelletier Marshall
- Aug 5, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 24, 2025
Compiled Industry News (August 5, 2025)
ICE raids meatpacking plant in Omaha, taking 100 workers; production drops by 70% in weeks following
ICE agents detained some 1,600 illegal migrants across the country. In Omaha, Nebraska, immigration enforcement agents targeted dozens of suspected undocumented workers at a large meat packing facility. Ian Lee has the latest.
US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins unveiled plans for reorganization of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) after a review of the agency indicated a “bloated, expensive and unsustainable organization,” she said.
The internal shift will not interrupt critical functions within the USDA, Rollins said, but will leave some employees subject to relocation.
Bloomberg’s Gerson Freitas Jr. reported that “the latest U.S. cattle tally offered little relief for consumers paying record beef prices, even as the cycle of herd liquidation seems to be coming to an end.”
“There were about 94.2 million cattle and calves in the U.S. as of July 1, the lowest mid-year count on record in data going back to 1973, the Department of Agriculture said in a report,” Freitas Jr. reported. “The number of animals placed in feedlots for weight gain before being sent to slaughter plunged to the lowest since 2017, the USDA said in a separate note.”
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