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DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 25, 2017
Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities Disclosure [Abstract] |
DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS | DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS The Company utilizes various raw materials in its operations, including corn, soybean meal, soybean oil, sorghum and energy, such as natural gas, electricity and diesel fuel, which are all considered commodities. The Company considers these raw materials generally available from a number of different sources and believes it can obtain them to meet its requirements. These commodities are subject to price fluctuations and related price risk due to factors beyond our control, such as economic and political conditions, supply and demand, weather, governmental regulation and other circumstances. Generally, the Company purchases derivative financial instruments, specifically exchange-traded futures and options, in an attempt to mitigate price risk related to its anticipated consumption of commodity inputs for approximately the next 12 months. The Company may purchase longer-term derivative financial instruments on particular commodities if deemed appropriate. The Company has operations in Mexico and, therefore, has exposure to translational foreign exchange risk when the financial results of those operations are translated to U.S. dollars. The Company has purchased foreign currency forward contracts to manage this translational foreign exchange risk. The fair value of derivative assets is included in the line item Prepaid expenses and other current assets on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets while the fair value of derivative liabilities is included in the line item Accrued expenses and other current liabilities on the same statements. Our counterparties require that we post cash collateral for changes in the net fair value of the derivative contracts. We have not designated the derivative financial instruments that we have purchased to mitigate commodity purchase or foreign currency transaction exposures as cash flow hedges. Therefore, we recognized changes in the fair value of these derivative financial instruments immediately in earnings. Gains or losses related to these derivative financial instruments are included in the line item Cost of sales in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income. The Company recognized net gains of $3.2 million and $1.8 million related to changes in the fair value of its derivative financial instruments during the thirteen weeks ended June 25, 2017 and June 26, 2016, respectively. The Company also recognized net gains of $0.4 million and $5.9 million related to changes in the fair value of its derivative financial instruments during the twenty-six weeks ended June 25, 2017 and June 26, 2016, respectively. Information regarding the Company’s outstanding derivative instruments and cash collateral posted with (owed to) brokers is included in the following table:
| June 25, 2017 |  | December 25, 2016
| (Fair values in thousands)
Fair values: |  |  |
Commodity derivative assets | $ | 3,864 |  |  | $ | 5,439 |
Commodity derivative liabilities | (11,736 | ) |  | (6,827 | )
Foreign currency derivative liabilities | (186 | ) |  | — |
Cash collateral posted with brokers | 20,348 |  |  | 4,979 |
Derivatives coverage(a): |  |  |
Corn | 2.0 | % |  | 2.3 | %
Soybean meal | 12.0 | % |  | 0.3 | %
Period through which stated percent of needs are covered: |  |  |
Corn | September 2018 |  |  | September 2018 |
Soybean meal | January 2018 |  |  | July 2017 |
(a) | Derivatives coverage is the percent of anticipated commodity needs covered by outstanding derivative instruments through a specified date.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for derivative instruments and hedging activities including, but not limited to, risk management strategies, non-hedging derivative instruments, assets, liabilities, revenue and expenses, and methodologies and assumptions used in determining the amounts. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 815 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2229140 + Details
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