By Devona Walker
Staff Writer
GUYMON — On a recent weekday, at least five of this agricultural community's hotels were booked. Room rates ranged from $54 — for motor lodge-like accommodations — to $80 at the Comfort Inn.


A block behind U.S. 54, makeshift campgrounds were also full. Some RVs carried heat-seeking snowbirds. Most campers were construction crews from as far away as New Mexico. Seaboard Farms already employs about half the 10,000-person town. The out-of-state construction crews were in Guymon to help build a bio-diesel plant for the company.

"I'm grateful for Seaboard,â€