Cal-Maine Foods, based out of Pine Grove, donates nearly 600,000 eggs to food banks in Louisiana. Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain says Cal-Maine had an excess and wanted to donate it, so they rolled in with two tractor-trailer trucks with 1,560 cases of eggs each in tow.
“That’s a lot of breakfast for a lot of people,” said Strain.
Strain says that’s 23,400 dozen cartons of eggs.
Cal-Maine General Manager Corey Davis explains how his company came into having so many excess eggs on hand.
“People filled their refridgerators during the stay at home order, restaurants weren’t open, schools weren’t open, so some of the products we packed and had in our coolers, we weren’t able to ship them to our normal customers,” said Davis.
Cal-Maine has roughly 40 egg-producing plants nationwide.
Davis says they look forward to distributing the eggs to food banks later this month.
“Our company believes in God, family, and helping our community in anything we can do. We are egg producers so when we have product available to give out to the community, that’s what we like to do with it,” said Davis.
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