Seaboard Foods' community scholarships targets supporting education in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Colorado and Iowa where the company has operations along with providing scholarships to children of employees.
Seaboard Foods grants a total of 65 $1,000 scholarships to graduating high-school seniors who are pursuing certificates and degrees from technical schools, colleges and universities in fall 2024.
Most people in the United States had never experienced empty store shelves, but the pandemic in 2020 provided evidence of the lack of robustness in the meat supply chain.
The Department of Animal Science at the University of Arkansas (UA) currently has approximately 315 students and primarily houses the meat science program.