Seaboard Foods was awarded the American Meat Institute’s (AMI) Edward C. Jones Community Service Award during the 2011 AMI Meat, Poultry & Seafood Convention and Exposition in Chicago, Ill. In presenting the award, AMI Chairman Dennis Vignieri, president of Kenosha Beef International, called Seaboard’s generosity “wide-ranging.”
The company donated $450,000 over 10 years to the Leoti, Kan., school system to provide technology to improve education. The company also donated $100,000 to the Oklahoma State University Swine Education and Research Center. Guymon, Okla. — one of Seaboard’s plant communities — benefited from a $100,000 donation to build a new YMCA and Seiling, Okla., has new trees around the city thanks to Seaboard.