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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001562762-21-000356"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CALM"
cik: "0000016160"
company_name: "CAL-MAINE FOODS INC"
filed_at: "2021-10-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T23:26:20.098526+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cal-Maine Foods invests up to $18.5M in MeadowCreek Foods for specialty egg products

## Summary
- Investment up to $18.5M in debt and equity to establish MeadowCreek Foods, LLC in Neosho, MO.
- Focus on hard-cooked and extended shelf-life egg product lines for foodservice and retail.
- Cal-Maine retains controlling interest; Ronald B. Bennett named President with 30 years of industry experience.
- Cal-Maine will be preferred egg supplier; venture targets rising demand for specialty and cage-free egg products.
- Strategic move to expand presence in the growing egg products processing sector (30% of U.S. eggs further processed).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001562762-21-000356
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CALM
- cik: 0000016160
- company_name: CAL-MAINE FOODS INC
- filed_at: 2021-10-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16160/000156276221000356/0001562762-21-000356-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16160/000156276221000356/calm8k20210719.htm

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