Washington pork producer JWV Pork closes Washington site, lays off workers

Major Iowa pork producer JWV Pork, 2504 Quince Ave., Washington, Iowa, has laid off 65 employees and closed its operations Jan. 1, following months of financial distress when it defaulted on loans totaling $38.8 million. The layoffs were recorded in the statewide collection of Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notifications (WARN) Act notices published by Iowa Workforce Development.

In September 2023, the company’s lender, Farm Credit Services of…