U.S. Meat Supply Recovering as JBS Plants Return After Hack (1)

Meat production in the U.S. is climbing back toward normal levels, with the government pressing other companies to boost output while JBS SA’s meat plants recover from last weekend’s cyberattack.

JBS said late Thursday that lost production would be fully recovered by the end of next week. “All of our facilities around the globe are operating at normal capacity,” Andre Nogueira, JBS USA’s chief executive officer, said in the statement.

Cattle-slaughtering in the U.S. had essentially returned to normal Thursday, with 120,000 head slaughtered, just 1,000 less than a week earlier, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department. ...