Scholarships are awarded to junior and senior undergraduates as well as master's and Ph.D. candidates studying engineering or meat sciences at North American universities.
National Pork Producers Council honors the recipients of the Lois Britt Memorial Pork Industry Scholarship, Neil Dierks Scholarship, and inaugural US Pork Center of Excellence Swine Legacy Scholarship.
The $5,000 scholarship is awarded annually to a graduate student enrolled in a land-grant university pursuing a field of study that directly supports the pork industry.
Attendees gain a better understanding of Seaboard Foods farm and plant operations to use in their curriculums and help teach about agribusiness to their students.
Let’s face the facts: Going to work in the protein-production industry is not on any
publication’s list of the “Top 10 hottest job opportunities” for recent college grads.