---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001830210-25-000009"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001830210"
company_name: "Benson Hill, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-02-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T22:23:26.080340+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Benson Hill sells pea products business for ~$23.2M, furloughs 43 employees

## Summary
- Sold pea products business for ~$23.2M gross proceeds; $2.4M cash at closing, $2.5M holdback.
- $18.4M used to repay debt to First National Bank of Omaha; related credit agreement terminated.
- 43 employees (36% of workforce) placed on furlough as part of cost-reduction efforts.
- No material charges expected from furloughs; duration and extent of furlough period uncertain.
- Principal executive offices relocated to 1200 Research Boulevard, St. Louis, MO.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001830210-25-000009
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001830210
- company_name: Benson Hill, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-02-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 1.02, 2.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1830210/000183021025000009/0001830210-25-000009-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1830210/000183021025000009/bhil-20250212.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001830210-25-000009.txt

## Key facts
- M&A Transactions
  Benson Hill, Inc. completed a disposition involving Dakota Dry Bean, LLC for approximately $23.2 million of total gross proceeds (closed 2025-02-12).
  - Action: disposition
  - Counterparty: Dakota Dry Bean, LLC
  - Consideration: approximately $23.2 million of total gross proceeds
  - Closing: 2025-02-12
  source text: to which, among other things, Seller agreed to sell, and Buyer agreed to purchase, substantially all of the assets relating to Seller’s pea products business for approximately $23.2 million of total gross proceeds, subject to certain adjustments, including an adjustment for inventory and other working capital (the “Purchase Price”). Holdings, a wholly owned
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1830210/000183021025000009/0001830210-25-000009-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.