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 holding 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 780,000-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.