#38 – Brock Puffett (USN) – Seaboard Foods

You have to understand your situational awareness. If something isn’t working right, you need to make a quicker call.

This the second interview in our series with military veterans at Seaboard Foods. This week’s guest is Brock Puffett – Multi-Site Supervisor at Seaboard, a top US pork producer/processor and leading global exporter. At Seaboard, Brock is responsible for everything that happens at multiple swine barns under his direct supervision – health and quality of life of the animals, facility maintenance, personnel issues…everything.

In this episode, we get into:

• Brock’s childhood summers working on a farm in Iowa baling hay and picking rock
• His decision to join the Navy which took him all over the world
• A hard lesson he learned late one night on the flight deck in the middle of the ocean
• How pigs are the easy part; it’s the people who need the most attention
• Capturing mistakes from the military and bringing them forward into the ag profession