Cal-Maine Foods board approves $40M in new capital projects
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Cal-Maine Foods board approves $40M in new capital projects

Cal-Maine Foods announced that on October 4, 2024, its Board of Directors approved $40 million in new capital projects to further expand the Company’s cage-free production capabilities. The Company plans to fund the projects through a combination of available cash on hand, sales of investment securities and operating cash flow. The projects will include the addition of five new cage-free layer houses across the Company’s locations in Florida, Georgia, Utah and Texas. The Company plans to start construction by the end of calendar 2024 and expects the projects to be completed with additional production capacity for approximately 1.0 million cage-free layer hens by late summer 2025. These additions will primarily replace recently retired caged facilities and add to the Company’s cage-free capacity. The Company also provided an update on its conversion of the former Tyson Foods facilities in Dexter, Missouri, acquired on March 14, 2024. Following the closing, the Company began work to remodel and repurpose these assets for use in shell egg production. Cal-Maine Foods has also been working with local contract growers and has commitments that would result in approximately 1.2 million additional free-range hens by fall 2025, with plans to add more capacity in the future.

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