Guymon, Okla., (Dec. 15, 2020) – Seaboard Foods kicked
off a year-long celebration to show its appreciation to employees and the
communities where it operates in honor of the connected food system’s 25th
anniversary. With farm operations and a pork processing plant located in
Guymon, Oklahoma, that began its first full year of operations in 1996, Seaboard
Foods will observe the anniversary by distributing anniversary
commemorative holiday gift boxes to all employees, decorating its facilities with
special edition anniversary banners and hold other activities throughout the
year.
From a startup
operation in the early 1990s in the Oklahoma panhandle, the company began
building farms to supply the 900,000-square-foot Guymon pork processing plant
that started its first year of operations in January 1996. Today, more than
3,300 employees work at the Guymon processing plant or on farms in the Oklahoma
panhandle and the neighboring Texas panhandle and southwest Kansas, with a
national footprint operating in five states with more than 5,400 employees.
As a leading pork
producer, Seaboard Foods raises pigs on its farms in Oklahoma,
Kansas, Texas, Colorado and Iowa and processes 5.6 million market hogs annually
at the Guymon plant, which recently completed a major expansion, to produce more
than 1.3 billion pounds of pork annually. Headquartered in the Kansas City
metro, the company also owns jointly a pork processing plant in Sioux City,
Iowa, and Daily’s Premium Meats, with plants in Montana, Utah and Missouri.
Seaboard Foods is more
than a stable corporate entity in communities where it operates, it is also a
responsible corporate neighbor. It has been a loyal supporter of the Guymon community
and region by sponsoring high school sports teams, supporting community
festivals, donating to area food pantries, contributing to public improvement
projects, giving pork products to first responders and encouraging employees to
volunteer for civic and educational organizations. Recently, Seaboard Foods
donated $50,000 to Guymon Public Schools toward the purchase of digital
scoreboard for its high school football field and another $213,000 in area community sponsorships. The Seaboard Foundation also donated $400,000 with a commitment of $800,000 over four years to the Guymon Enrichment Foundation which has
chosen to use the donation toward building the community’s first public soccer
field with artificial turf.
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About Seaboard Foods
As part of a uniquely connected food system, Seaboard Foods
relentlessly seeks a better way to produce wholesome Prairie Fresh® pork
by purposely connecting every step between its farms and family tables around
the world. Operating in Oklahoma and four other states and employing more than
5,000 people, Seaboard Foods' continued commitment to creating the most
sought-after pork ensures the well-being of its animals, the environment,
employees and the communities they call home. Headquartered the Kansas City
Metro, products sold domestically are marketed under the Prairie Fresh® pork
brand and internationally under the Seaboard Farms® brand.
