Tyson Foods is an active, longtime patron sponsor of SNA because we believe in its contribution and value to the industry. To assure that our sales and marketing professionals are well entrenched in the school foodservice world, most of our team members have earned School Nutrition Specialist (SNS) credentials through the rigorous SNA operator credentialing examination. For more information visit www.schoolnutrition.org.

As a founding sponsor of the annual Foodservice Achievement Management Excellence (FAME) Awards, Tyson Foods is proud to honor school foodservice leaders for their achievements, innovations and service. Visit www.fameawards.net for more information, to see this year’s FAME Award winners, or to nominate someone for next year’s event.

Our Commodity Order Reprocessing System (CORS) is a proven resource-optimizing tool that enables you to get the most out of your commodity food allocations. When you divert your commodity chicken or beef to Tyson Foods, we will store it and convert it to the products of your choice. Our internet-based ordering and reporting system makes it easy for you to keep track of your allocation throughout the school year and add reliability to your menu pattern. This just-in-time delivery system can save you storage and warehousing costs on classic Tyson® products. For more information, visit www.k12foodservice.com.

Tyson works closely with the USDA Commodity Program and the USDA agencies at the federal and state level through the Food & Nutrition Services (FNS), Farm Service Agency (FSA), Agriculture Marketing service (AMS), and Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS), along with state distributing agencies through state and regional offices to ensure safe, healthy, high quality foods for school nutrition programs. Commodity Processing helps school nutrition programs by expanding donated food from a limited number of commodities to a broader array of nutritionally sound, popular items, while keeping labor costs to a minimum. For more information, click here.

Tyson is committed to improving the USDA commodity distribution program through its membership in ACDA. Tyson and ACDA serve as a resource for commodity information and as an industry link to stake holders in commodity processing. Through membership in ACDA Tyson works with processing companies, government agencies, and recipient agencies on commodity policy issues. For more information visit www.commodityfoods.org.