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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Second largest egg producer in the United States}}<br />
{{Infobox company<br />
| name = Rose Acre Farms, Inc.<br />
| logo = Rose Acre Farms logo.jpg<br />
| type = Private<br />
| founder = David Rust<br />
| num_employees = 2,000<ref name="dj" /><br />
| revenue = $608.74 million<ref name="hoovers">{{cite web|title=Rose Acre Farms Inc Company Profile|url=http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/cs/company-profile.rose_acre_farms_inc.960c8c13ee43363e.html|website=www.hoovers.com|publisher=[[D&B Hoovers]]|access-date=15 April 2018}}</ref><br />
| hq_location = [[Seymour, Indiana]]<br />
| key_people = Marcus Rust, CEO<ref name="bloombergprofile">{{cite news|title=Rose Acre Farms, Inc.: Private Company Information|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=4277112|access-date=15 April 2018|publisher=[[Bloomberg L.P.]]}}</ref><br />
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& Tony Wesner, COO<br />
| industry = [[Poultry farming]]<br />
| products = Eggs<br />
| homepage = [http://www.goodegg.com/ GoodEgg.com]<br />
}}<br />
'''Rose Acre Farms''' is the second largest egg producer in the United States<ref name="The Republic">{{cite web|url=http://www.therepublic.com/2018/03/27/egg-producer-donates-200000-to-complex/|title=Egg producer donates $200,000 to complex|last1=Staff Writer|website=The Republic|access-date=12 April 2018}}</ref> and employs more than 2,000 people.<ref name="dj">{{cite web|url=http://www.daily-journal.com/business/briefcase-for-march/article_76674d1a-3136-11e8-91fd-276f72de3f58.html|title=Briefcase for March 28, 2018|last1=Breach|first1=Chris|website=[[Daily Journal (Illinois)|Daily Journal]]|access-date=12 April 2018}}</ref> The company is based in [[Seymour, Indiana]], and has facilities in seven states: Arizona, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and North Carolina, plus joint ventures in Colorado and Hawaii. Rose Acre Farms is one of several producers that annually donate approximately 30,000 hard boiled eggs to the U.S. government for use at the [[White House Easter Egg Roll]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.columbiamissourian.com/opinion/guest_commentaries/guest-commentary-from-the-farm-to-the-white-house-our/article_003a2890-3426-11e8-9d3f-c33895406eb3.html|title=From the Farm to the White House, our Eggs are on a Roll|last1=Hinton|first1=Greg|website=The Columbia Missourian|access-date=12 April 2018}}</ref><br />
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In 2013 the company began a 30-year effort to refit its facilities to [[Free-range eggs|cage-free]] standards.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/latest-flap-on-egg-farms-going-whole-hog-on-cage-free-1426100062|title=Latest Flap on Egg Farms: Whether to Go 'Cage-Free'|last=Kesmodel|first=David|date=March 11, 2015|work=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=April 12, 2018}}</ref><br />
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In 2018, Rose Acre Farms donated $200,000 for a new animal science complex on the nearby campus of [[Purdue University]] at [[Lafayette, Indiana]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.wbiw.com/local/archive/2018/03/rose-acre-farms-contributes-200000-to-purdue-university-animal-science-complex.php|title=Rose Acre Farms Contributes $200,000 To Purdue University Animal Science Complex|last=Staff Writer|date=March 23, 2018|work=WBIW}}</ref><br />
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In April 2018, Rose Acre Farms announced that, due to concerns over ''[[Salmonella]]'', they would be voluntarily [[product recall|recalling]] more than 200 million eggs which originated at its facility in [[Hyde County, North Carolina]]. All recalled eggs were conventional eggs<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls/ucm604640.htm|title=Recalls, Market Withdrawals, & Safety Alerts - Rose Acre Farms Recalls Shell Eggs Due to Possible Health Risk|last=Affairs|first=Office of Regulatory|website=www.fda.gov|language=en|access-date=2018-10-15}}</ref> from hens raised in [[battery cage]] facilities. The [[Food and Drug Administration]] (FDA) investigation found, among other things, numerous rodents in the manure pits below the battery cages.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fda.gov/ucm/groups/fdagov-public/@fdagov-afda-orgs/documents/document/ucm604794.pdf|title=FDA Investigation Report - Rose Acre Farms|website=[[Food and Drug Administration]] }}</ref> It was the largest egg recall in the country since 2010.<ref>{{cite news|title=200 million eggs recalled over salmonella fears|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2018/04/14/200-million-eggs-recalled-over-salmonella-fears/518245002/|access-date=15 April 2018|work=[[USA Today]]|date=April 14, 2018|language=en}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Agriculture companies of the United States]]<br />
[[Category:Companies based in Indiana]]<br />
[[Category:Farms in Indiana]]<br />
[[Category:Farms in the United States]]<br />
[[Category:2018 in the United States]]<br />
[[Category:Egg farming]]</div>WikiDwarfBOT