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 rockHis decision to join the Navy which took him all over the worldA hard lesson he learned late one night on the flight deck in the middle of the oceanHow pigs are the easy part; it's the people who need the most attentionCapturing mistakes from the military and bringing them forward into the ag profession