FORT DODGE, Iowa - Less than a month after assuring their workers that none would be laid off, corn producer Tate & Lyle has announced it will cut more than half of its workforce at its plant west of Fort Dodge.
Spokesman Chris Olsen says 56 of the plant's 90 employees have been laid off. Twenty of the remaining workers will be retained to preserve the plant's equipment and prepare the plant for a possible restart.
The rest of the remaining employees will be transferred within the company.
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