Max Armstrong offers insight from one analyst who saw a labor crisis in the meat packing industry several weeks ago. Industry Analyst Dennis Smith, a long-time livestock industry observer, shares insight into ways to solve the problem. The challenge is a labor problem that Smith says the packers brought on themselves.

Farm Progress America is a daily look at key issues in agriculture. It is produced and presented by Max Armstrong, veteran farm broadcaster and host of This Week in Agribusiness.

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