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DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2023
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, wheat, 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 twelve months. The Company may purchase longer-term derivative financial instruments on particular commodities if deemed appropriate. The Company has operations in Mexico, the U.K., France, the Netherlands and the Republic of Ireland. Therefore, it has exposure to translational foreign exchange risk when the financial results of those operations are remeasured in U.S. dollars. The Company has purchased foreign currency forward contracts to partially 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 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. The Company’s counterparties require that it post collateral for changes in the net fair value of the derivative contracts. This cash collateral is reported in the line item Restricted cash and cash equivalents on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. Undesignated contracts may include contracts not designated as hedges or contracts that do not qualify for hedge accounting. The fair value of each of these derivatives is recognized in the Consolidated Balance Sheets within Prepaid expenses and other current assets or Accrued expenses and other current liabilities. Changes in fair value of each derivative are recognized immediately in the Consolidated Statements of Income within Net sales, Cost of sales, Selling, general and administrative expense, or Foreign currency transaction (gains) losses depending on the risk the derivative is intended to mitigate. While management believes these instruments help mitigate various market risks, they are not designated and accounted for as hedges as a result of the extensive record keeping requirements. The Company does not apply hedge accounting treatment to certain derivative financial instruments that it has purchased to mitigate commodity purchase exposures in the U.S. and Mexico or foreign currency transaction exposures on our Mexico operations. Therefore, the Company recognized changes in the fair value of these derivative financial instruments immediately in earnings. Gains or losses related to the commodity derivative financial instruments are included in the line item Cost of sales in the Consolidated Statements of Income. Realized gains and losses related to cash flows are disclosed in the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows in Cash Provided by Operating Activities. Unrealized gains and losses related to cash flows are disclosed in the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows in the line item Other operating assets and liabilities. Gains or losses related to the foreign currency derivative financial instruments are included in the line item Foreign currency transaction losses (gains) and Cost of sales in the Consolidated Statements of Income. The Company does apply hedge accounting to certain derivative financial instruments related to its U.K. and Europe reportable segment that it has purchased to mitigate foreign currency transaction exposures. Before the settlement date of the financial derivative instruments, the Company recognizes changes in the fair value of the cash flow hedge into accumulated other comprehensive loss (“AOCL”). When the derivative financial instruments are settled, the amount in AOCL is then reclassified to earnings. Gains or losses related to these derivative financial instruments are included in the line items Net sales and Cost of sales in the Consolidated Statements of Income. We have generally applied the normal purchase and normal sale scope exception (“NPNS”) to our forward physical grain purchase contracts delivered by truck and to our forward physical natural gas and solar-generated power purchase contracts. NPNS contracts are accounted for using the accrual method of accounting; therefore, amounts payable under these contracts are recorded when we take delivery of the contracted product and no amounts were recorded for the fair value of these contracts in the Consolidated Financial Statements at December 31, 2023 and December 25, 2022. Information regarding the Company’s outstanding derivative instruments and cash collateral posted with brokers is included in the following table:
| December 31, 2023 |  | December 25, 2022
| (In thousands)
Fair values: |  |  |
Commodity derivative assets | $ | 1,202 |  |  | $ | 17,922 |
Commodity derivative liabilities | (17,118) |  |  | (9,042) |
Foreign currency derivative assets | 175 |  |  | 555 |
Foreign currency derivative liabilities | (723) |  |  | (6,170) |
Sales contract derivative assets | 960 |  |  | — |
Sales contract derivative liabilities | — |  |  | (3,705) |
Cash collateral posted with brokers(a) | 33,475 |  |  | 33,771 |
Derivatives Coverage(b): |  |  |
Corn | 10.9 | % |  | 14.4 | %
Soybean meal | 39.6 | % |  | 10.1 | %
Period through which stated percent of needs are covered: |  |  |
Corn | July 2024 |  | December 2023
Soybean meal | March 2024 |  | December 2023
(a)Collateral posted with brokers consists primarily of cash, short term treasury bills, or other cash equivalents. (b)Derivatives coverage is the percent of anticipated commodity needs covered by outstanding derivative instruments through a specified date. The following table presents the gains and losses of each derivative instrument held by the Company not designated or qualifying as hedging instruments:
| Years Ended |
Type of Contract (a) | December 31, 2023 |  | December 25, 2022 |  | December 26, 2021 | Affected Line Item in the Consolidated Statements of Income
Foreign currency derivatives gain (loss) | $ | (34,229) |  |  | $ | (35,586) |  |  | $ | 12,806 |  | Foreign currency transaction losses (gains)
Commodity derivative gain (loss) | (5,318) |  |  | 53,899 |  |  | 50,404 |  | Cost of sales
Sales contract derivative gain (loss) | 4,665 |  |  | 8,985 |  |  | (12,691) |  | Net sales
Total | $ | (34,882) |  |  | $ | 27,298 |  |  | $ | 50,519 |  |
(a)Amounts in parentheses represent income (expenses) related to results of operations. The following tables present the components of the gain or loss on derivatives that qualify as cash flow hedges:
| Gain (Loss) Recognized in Other Comprehensive Loss
| December 31, 2023 |  | December 25, 2022 |  | December 26, 2021
| (In thousands)
Foreign currency derivatives | $ | (2,579) |  |  | $ | 1,719 |  |  | $ | 471 |
Interest rate swap derivatives | — |  |  | 98 |  |  | (88) |
Total | $ | (2,579) |  |  | $ | 1,817 |  |  | $ | 383 |
| Gain (Loss) Reclassified from AOCI into Income
| December 31, 2023 |  | December 25, 2022
| Net sales(a) |  | Cost of sales(b) |  | Interest expense, net of capitalized interest(b) |  | Net sales(a) |  | Cost of sales(b) |  | Interest expense, net of capitalized interest(b)
| (In thousands)
Total amounts of income and expense line items presented in the Consolidated Statements of Income in which the effects of cash flow hedges are recorded | $ | 17,362,217 |  |  | $ | 16,243,816 |  |  | $ | 202,272 |  |  | $ | 17,468,377 |  |  | $ | 15,656,574 |  |  | $ | 152,672 |
Impact from cash flow hedging instruments: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Interest rates swap derivatives | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 98 |
Foreign currency derivatives | (1,816) |  |  | (3) |  |  | — |  |  | (3,194) |  |  | 851 |  |  | — |
(a)Amounts represent income (expenses) related to net sales. (b)Amounts represent expenses (income) related to cost of sales and interest expense. As of December 31, 2023, there were immaterial pre-tax deferred net losses on foreign currency derivatives recorded in AOCL that are expected to be reclassified to the Consolidated Statements of Income during the next twelve months. This expectation is based on the anticipated settlements on the hedged investments in foreign currencies that will occur over the next twelve months, at which time the Company will recognize the deferred losses to earnings.

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