Seaboard Corporation (SEB)
Pork plants, mills and ships, counted by region. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 12, 2026. Ranked 161 of the 175 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
15%
End of 2028
25%
Employees, annual report
14,000
Leading staffing pattern
Animal Slaughtering and Processing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now15%
- End of 202722%
- End of 202825%
- End of 203026%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 69%
- Becomes checking a model's work 24%
- Handed over with lighter checks 6%
The filing states 14,000 employees by region, 52% in the U.S., across pork, milling, shipping and power segments with no count by segment, so the split is by description.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 15% now, 22% at the end of 2027, 25% at the end of 2028, 26% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 26% desk work, 11% people work and 64% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 69% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 24% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
14,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Approximately 52% of 14,000 employees in the U.S., 30% in the Caribbean, Central and South America and 18% in Africa, stated.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, Seaboard had approximately 14,000 total employees, of whom approximately 52% were in the U.S., 30% were in the Caribbean, Central and South America, and 18% were in Africa.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Animal Slaughtering and Processing | 32% | The Pork segment, whose plant and farm workforce the filing describes (26% dependent on employment visas, onsite health clinics, a management training program open to 67% of its employees), processes hogs at its Guymon plant, read at animal slaughtering and processing by description (c) as the largest part. |
| Grain and Oilseed Milling | 25% | The Commodity Trading and Milling segment runs flour and feed mills in Africa, where 18% of employees work, and in the Caribbean and South America, read at grain milling by description (c); the filing counts employees by region, not by segment. |
| Deep Sea, Coastal, and Great Lakes Water Transportation | 23% | The Marine segment's container shipping between Miami and the Caribbean and Central and South America, with heavy equipment operators at its terminals, is read at deep sea and coastal shipping by description (c). |
| Support Activities for Animal Production | 15% | The Pork segment's hog farms employ farm workers, read at support activities for animal production by description (c) with the farm flag, as Smithfield's and Dole's farm work was read. |
| Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution | 5% | The Power segment's generating facilities in the Dominican Republic, with onsite health clinics at their principal location, are read at electric power generation at five percent by description (c); the Liquid Fuels segment folds under rule 5. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 52% U.S., 30% Caribbean, Central and South America, 18% Africa; about 26% of the Pork segment's workforce dependent on employment visas in 2025; segments: Pork, Commodity Trading and Milling, Marine, Liquid Fuels, Power, Turkey (an unconsolidated affiliate).
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Animal Slaughtering and Processing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Tyson Foods (TSN, 133,000 employees)10% now, 16% by 2028
- Pilgrim's Pride Corporation (PPC, 63,000 employees)9% now, 13% by 2028
- Smithfield Foods, Inc. (SFD, 34,500 employees)9% now, 14% by 2028
- Hormel Foods Corporation (HRL, 20,000 employees)11% now, 16% by 2028
- Darling Ingredients Inc. (DAR, 15,000 employees)12% now, 18% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
1 sentences in the filing name AI. One risk-factor sentence says new technologies such as artificial intelligence may bring model inaccuracies and cyber vulnerabilities the company may be slow to detect.
- “In addition, new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, may present the potential for model inaccuracies and unforeseen challenges, and Seaboard may not be able to anticipate or react to these types of cyber-attacks or vulnerabilities and face delays in detection or remediation.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20231median 1
- Fiscal 20241median 4
- Fiscal 20251median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 14,000 | 2026-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 14,000 | 2025-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 13,000 | 2024-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 13,000 | 2023-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 13,200 | 2022-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 13,100 | 2021-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 13,100 | 2020-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 12,600 | 2019-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 11,800 | 2018-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 12,000 | 2017-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 10,772 | 2016-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 10,778 | 2015-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 11,397 | 2014-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 11,295 | 2013-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 10,573 | 2012-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 10,865 | 2011-03-09 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 10,957 | 2010-03-05 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 10,734 | 2009-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 10,663 | 2008-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 10,363 | 2007-03-05 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 10,357 | 2006-03-07 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 9,532 | 2005-03-04 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 9,462 | 2004-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 9,294 | 2003-03-04 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 9,502 | 2002-03-13 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 9,884 | 2001-03-09 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 9,763 | 2000-03-10 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-12-31 | 14,954 | 1999-03-25 | 10-K405 |
| 1997-12-31 | 12,031 | 1998-03-26 | 10-K405 |
| 1996-12-31 | 10,788 | 1997-03-27 | 10-K405 |
| 1995-12-31 | 11,699 | 1996-03-29 | 10-K405 |
| 1994-12-31 | 10,256 | 1995-03-31 | 10-K405 |
| 1993-12-31 | 10,891 | 1994-03-31 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by segment: the split between pork processing, milling, shipping, farms and power is by description (c), the weakest reading of the round.
- Farm work is read at support activities for animal production because farms are outside the BLS survey.
- The data service's segment table is by revenue kind, not by business, and was not used.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000088121-26-000012, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Seaboard Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 15% now and 25% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Seaboard Corporation's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Seaboard Corporation employ?
- 14,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 52% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Seaboard Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 5 industry staffing patterns, the largest Animal Slaughtering and Processing; by those patterns the work is about 26% desk work, 11% people work and 64% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Seaboard Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 1 sentence in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 1, 1 and 1 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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