UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

CURRENT REPORT

 

FORM 8-K

 

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act

 

Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): April 9, 2015 

 

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

3320 Woodrow Wilson Avenue

Jackson, MS 39207

(Address of principal executive offices (zip code))

 

601-948-6813

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2 below):

 

☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
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Item 8.01   Other Events

 

On April 9, 2015, the Company announced it had entered into a 50/50 production joint venture with Rose Acre Farms, Inc. of Seymour, Indiana.  The new joint venture, Red River Valley Egg Farm, LLC, will build and operate a state of the art shell egg production complex with capacity for 1.8 million laying hens near Bogata, Red River County, Texas.  A copy of the Company’s press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report.

 

 

Item 9.01.   Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

(d)  Exhibits

 

99.1    Press Release issued by the Company on April 9, 2015

 

 

SIGNATURES

 

 

Pursuant to the requirements for the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

 

 

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