{"id":201848,"date":"2012-07-19T02:35:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T07:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=201848"},"modified":"2012-07-20T02:32:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T07:32:51","slug":"cal-maine-to-buy-pilgrims-pride-egg-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=201848","title":{"rendered":"Cal-Maine to Buy Pilgrim&#8217;s Pride Egg Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=201849\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-201849\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/07\/Pilgrims-Pride-Chickens.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Pilgrim&#039;s Pride Chickens\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-201849\" \/><\/a>JACKSON, MISS. (AP) \u2014 Egg producer Cal-Maine Foods says it will buy two Texas plants from Pilgrim&#8217;s Pride Corp. Terms were not disclosed. The sale is expected to close in August.<\/p>\n<p>Mississippi-based Cal-Maine says it&#8217;s the largest producer and distributor of shell eggs in the United States, doing business in 29 states. Cal-Maine said the two egg plants near Pilgrims&#8217;s Pride headquarters in Pittsburg, Texas, will add to Cal-Maine&#8217;s Texas business. The plants can hold 1.4 million hens.<\/p>\n<p>Egg production for grocers and food service users has been a sideline for Pilgrim&#8217;s Pride, the second-largest U.S. chicken producer behind Tyson Foods. Brazil&#8217;s JBS SA owns 75% of Pilgrim&#8217;s Pride. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSON, MISS. (AP) \u2014 Egg producer Cal-Maine Foods says it will buy two Texas plants from Pilgrim&#8217;s Pride Corp. Terms were not disclosed. The sale is expected to close in August. Mississippi-based Cal-Maine says it&#8217;s the largest producer and distributor of shell eggs in the United States, doing business in 29 states. Cal-Maine said the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=201848\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cal-Maine to Buy Pilgrim&#8217;s Pride Egg Operations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 00:24:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201848"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202067,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201848\/revisions\/202067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}