Seaboard Foods, LLC

Seaboard Foods, LLC operates a hog slaughter and pork processing plant at 2700 Cactus Drive in Guymon, Texas County, Oklahoma, under USDA FSIS establishment numbers M13597 and V13597. FSIS lists the establishment's activities as meat slaughter, meat processing, and export certification, with hogs as the only species slaughtered under inspection. FSIS classifies the plant as large and places it in slaughter volume category 4.0. The grant of inspection date on file is April 30, 2021. The federal record shows no custom-exempt activity, meaning the plant is not listed as processing animals owned by individual customers. The establishment is also recorded under the names Seaboard Farms, Inc., Seaboard Foods, Seaboard Foods, LC, and Seaboard Foods, LP.

According to the company website, the Guymon plant opened in 1995, has operated at full capacity since 1997, and processes more than 20,000 hogs a day and approximately 1.4 billion pounds of pork annually, which the company describes as a Top 10 pork processor position. The site states the plant covers 900,000 square feet, was expanded in 2020, and is SQF certified. Seaboard Foods describes itself as a division of Seaboard Corporation that began as Seaboard Farms and started building farms in 1990. Company and connected-system farms in Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Texas, and Iowa supply hogs to the Guymon plant and to Sioux City, Iowa. The company markets fresh pork under the Prairie Fresh brand and reports zero product recalls in 2024 in its 2024 Sustainability Highlight Report.

The website describes a vertically integrated, or as the company calls it, connected, system spanning genetics, breeding, farrowing, nursery and finishing farms, eight feed mills, processing, and renewable energy. Related businesses named include Seaboard Triumph Foods in Sioux City, Iowa, Triumph Foods in St. Joseph, Missouri, Daily's Premium Meats in Missoula, Salt Lake City, and St. Joseph, Seaboard Foods de Mexico in Reynosa, and Seaboard Energy. The company states that animal welfare audits are conducted by third-party auditor FACTA and that customers are invited to tour its farms and plants. Retail hours, direct-to-consumer sales, and any terms for outside livestock owners are not stated in the sources on file.

The company sells fresh pork under the Prairie Fresh brand through retail and foodservice customers and states it offers a 100 percent consumer satisfaction guarantee on Prairie Fresh pork products. The sources do not describe a retail counter at the Guymon plant, halves or quarters, freezer bundles, online ordering, or direct shipping to households.

If you are buying a half or quarter animal, the plant is where the animal is processed; the farm sells you the animal. Read how to buy a half cow for the sequence and the math.