Facts & Figures

Fresh Pork | Processed Meats  | Live Production  | Renewable Energy

Fresh Pork Facts*
Fresh Pork Processing Facilities
Seaboard Foods markets and sells fresh pork from the two newest, large-scale pork processing plants in the United States.


Locations

• Guymon, Okla. 
• St. Joseph, Mo. (Owned and operated by Triumph Foods. Pursuant to an agreement, Seaboard Foods markets and sells all the products from this plant).

Plant Production Facts Per Plant*

• More than 4.9 million head processed annually at each plant*
• 2,000 production employees at each plant 
• 100 inbound trucks per day deliver live animals to the plant
• 80 outbound trucks per day deliver fresh pork products 
• USDA Process Verified for Meat Quality, Animal Handling and Source Verification.
• Combined, the two plants represent the fourth largest daily slaughter capacity for pork--representing about 9 percent of the U.S. slaughter volume.

*Operating at full capacity

• Missoula, Mont.-Raw Sliced Bacon
• Salt Lake City, Utah-Raw Sliced Bacon and Fully Cooked Bacon

Plant Facts

• About 73 million pounds annually of raw and precooked bacon
• 400 employees
• Raw sliced bacon produced at each plant; precooked bacon produced in Salt Lake City

Live Production Operations Facts
Seaboard Foods Live Production operations supply animals to the Guymon, Okla., processing plant. The producer-owners of the St. Joseph, Mo., plant supply the animals to St. Joseph processing plant. To ensure consistent, wholesome pork products, the two live production systems are closely aligned with strict control over the entire production process, including genetics, nutrition and animal welfare.

Seaboard Foods Live Production Operations
Locations

• Oklahoma
• Kansas
• Colorado
• Texas

Farm Locations: More than 250
Sow Base: More than 210,000
Total Hogs Produced: More than 4 million annually
Total Employees: 1,650

Sow Operations

• The sow barns have specialized functions including breeding, gestation, farrowing and employee administrative functions. They are linked to a computer network for round-the-clock monitoring of building security and environment.
• In the breeding barns, Seaboard Foods uses 100% artificial insemination.
• Pregnancy is checked with ultrasound technology.
• From the breeding barn, the pregnant sows are moved to the gestation barn where they are put on a special diet for the 114-day gestation period.
  The sows are then moved to the farrowing barn where they give birth to between 10 and 12 piglets. Sows nurse the piglets for about three weeks and are then returned to the breeding barn.
• Seaboard Foods achieves approximately twenty-one weaned pigs/sows per year.

Nursery Operations

• The 12-pound piglets are moved to nursery barns where they stay for seven weeks until they weigh approximately 45 pounds. From the nurseries, feeder pigs are transported to a grow/finish farm.

Finisher Operations

• A Seaboard Foods grow/finish unit is normally comprised of 10 buildings.
• A complex farm manager at each site is responsible for monitoring animal care, animal health and equipment.
• Specialized crews trained in animal moving assist with the unloading, load out, health care and sanitation of each unit.
• In the finishing barn, the pigs gain 1.5-1.7 pounds a day for approximately 20 weeks until they reach a finished weight of approximately 280 pounds.

Feed Mill Operations
The live production system maintains strict control of animal feeds and uses 14 proprietary rations throughout the animal’s life.

Locations

• Optima, Okla.
• Hugoton, Kan.
• Holyoke, Colo.
• Julesburg, Colo.
• Leoti, Kan.
• Okeene, Okla.
  

Total Feed Production: 1.5 million tons of animal feed per year
Total Employees: 135

• Although Seaboard Foods procures grain from local farmers during harvest, the feed mills have a combined storage capacity of 1 million bushels. As a result, Seaboard Foods procures most of its grain needs from area grain elevators.
• Seaboard Foods currently uses approximately 40 million bushels of locally grown corn and grain sorghum each year.
• The 30 million bushels of grain purchased annually by Seaboard Foods is equivalent to the average capacity of 20 elevators.

Renewable Energy Facts
High Plains Bioenergy
High Plains Bioenergy, a wholly owned subsidiary of Seaboard Foods, creates sustainable energy solutions by developing alternative energy from the Seaboard Foods integrated system.

Biodiesel Plant

Location:  Guymon, Okla. This biodiesel plant is located next to Seaboard Foods’ Guymon pork processing plant.

Capacity: 30 million gallons annually

Feedstock: Vegetable oils and animal fats, including pork fat from the Seaboard Foods Guymon pork processing plant.

Technology: Desmet Ballestra

Marketing: Musket Corporation markets and sells the biodiesel produced by the plant.

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