April 13, 2015
In response to customer demand for cage-free and specialty eggs, Cal-Maine Foods has formed a joint venture with Indiana-based Rose Acre Farms to form the new entity, Red River Valley Egg Farm. Family-owned Rose Acre has 17 production sites across six states. The new venture will build and operate a state of the art shell egg production facility in Red River country, Texas with the initial capacity for 1.8 million laying hens, and possible future expansion to house 2.9 million hens.
Construction has already begun on the facility which will utilize Rose Acre Farms’ patent pending cage-free aviary designs and production systems.
Dolph Baker, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Cal-Maine Foods, tells World Poultry, “Considering the uncertain regulatory framework in our industry right now, it made sense to partner with Rose Acre Farms to share the costs and mitigate the risk of such a large-scale aviary style egg production facility…”
The new complex is expected to begin production in August of this year.
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