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The company produces brands such as Farmhouse Eggs, Sunups, Sunny Meadow, Egg-Land’s Best and Land O’ Lakes eggs. “Production at the facility has temporarily ceased,” the company said.
In 1978, Land O'Lakes got into the meatpacking business with the purchase of Spencer Beef. [6] It sold Spencer Beef in 1983 to Excel, now Cargill Meat Solutions. [7] In 1999, Land O'Lakes took an ownership stake in egg producer MoArk; it took full ownership of the company in 2006. [8] [9]
Cal-Maine Foods, the country's largest egg supplier, owns brands like Eggland's Best, Land O' Lakes, Farmhouse and 4-Grain, many of which are distributed in Kentucky stores.
On May 1, 2012, Cal-Maine announced a joint venture between the cooperative Eggland's Best and Land O'Lakes. Cal-Maine was the largest franchisee of Eggland's Best and one of the company's 13 shareholders. As of 2011, 16 percent of Cal-Maine egg sales were Eggland's Best. [2]
Land O'Lakes and its farmer-owners may be benefiting. Price increases helped the Arden Hills-based cooperative earn a $254 million profit and return $175 million of that to owners in 2023, a boost ...
The Hillandale Iowa farm recalled 170 million eggs. [5] In 2015, a subsidiary of Hillandale Farms leased three farms in Turner, Leeds, and Winthrop. [5] The three farms were previously leased by a subsidiary of Land O'Lakes. [5] By 2016, Pennsylvania-based Hillandale Farms operated 10 egg production facilities in the United States. [4]
Purina Mills is now owned by Land O'Lakes. In 1994, the Ralston "human food" operations of the Ralston Purina Company were spun off into a new company called Ralcorp Holdings. In 1998, Ralston Purina spun off its international animal feed business as Agribrands, which was acquired by Cargill in 2001. [4]
At the helm of Land O’Lakes is Beth Ford, the first woman to lead the $19 billion Arden Hills, Minnesota, cooperative, which has 9,000 employees and 2,809 member-owners.