Land O’Lakes Inc. has sold its Missouri egg division for an undisclosed price, part of a continuing divestiture of the company’s egg business, which had been one of the nation’s largest.
Arden Hills-based Land O’Lakes has also recently sold its California egg operations, meaning that the majority of the divestment is complete. The agribusiness cooperative still has egg operations in Maine and Connecticut, which it appears to be trying to sell.
The buyer for Land O’Lakes’ Missouri and Colorado egg businesses is Opal Foods, a new company formed by California-based private equity group AGR Partners and two egg producers, Indiana-based Rose Acre Farms and Ohio-based Weaver Brothers.
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