Cal-Maine Foods

Cal-Maine Foods is the largest producer and marketer of shell eggs in the United States. The company sells most of its shell eggs in the southwestern, southeastern, Midwest and mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. Its operations consist of hatching chicks; growing and maintaining flocks of pullets, layers and breeders; manufacturing feed; and producing, processing, packaging, and distributing shell eggs.
Cal-Maine Foods produces brown and white caged and cage-free eggs, as well as free range, organic and nutritionally enhanced eggs. It also produces liquid and bulk egg products. As of September 2022, the company’s layer flock included 43.97 million.
In September 2022, Cal-Maine Foods named Sherman L. Miller as president and CEO. In its Q1 fiscal 2023 financial review the same month, Cal-Maine Foods Inc. reported record quarterly net sales of US$658.3 million, a 103% increase compared with the same quarter last year. The increase in the producer’s sales was attributed to record average conventional egg selling prices and a record specialty egg sales volume.
In March 2022, the company announced that US$82 million would be used for capital projects to expand its U.S. cage-free production capacity in Delta, Utah, and Guthrie, Kentucky. Utah’s expansion included four new cage-free layer houses and two pullet house conversions while Kentucky’s expansion included nine cage-free layer house conversions and two pullet house conversions. The two expansions increased the egg producer's flock by 1,763,000.