A northern Indiana farming community is reeling from two major food plants closing their doors.

The latest is Del Monte Foods, which announced Sept. 12 the upcoming move of its tomato processing plant in Plymouth to an existing facility owned by the company in Hanford, Calif. This comes a month after TreeHouse Foods, Inc., the parent company of Bay Valley Foods, revealed it was closing its operation in the city.

Commercial river traffic was flowing once again early this week following an eight-day shutdown of one of the oldest and busiest lock and dams on the Ohio or Mississippi river.