SEC Form 4

FORM 4		UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940	OMB APPROVAL OMB Number: 3235-0287 Estimated average burden hours per response: 0.5
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* OHAYER MATTHEW (Last) (First) (Middle) C/O VITAL FARMS, INC. 3601 SOUTH CONGRESS AVENUE, SUITE C100 (Street) AUSTIN TX 78704 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol Vital Farms, Inc. [ VITL ]	5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) Director 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below) EXECUTIVE CHAIRPERSON
	3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year) 12/19/2024
	4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)	6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3)	2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)			5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4)	6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
			Code	V	Amount	(A) or (D)	Price
Common Stock	12/19/2024		S(1)		11,808	D	$37.77(2)	7,051,082	D
Common Stock	12/19/2024		S(1)		12,192	D	$38.59(3)	7,038,890	D
Common Stock								1,742,000	I	By former spouse(4)

Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3)	2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)		6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4)		8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5)	9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4)	10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
				Code	V	(A)	(D)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

1. These sales were made pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted by the Reporting Person on June 7, 2023.

2. The price reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $37.13 to $38.09 inclusive. The Reporting Person undertakes to provide to the Issuer, any security holder of the Issuer, or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the ranges set forth in footnotes (2) and (3).

3. The price reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $38.10 to $38.93 inclusive.

4. Pursuant to an agreement between the Reporting Person and his former spouse, the Reporting Person has sole voting control over the shares. The Reporting Person has no pecuniary interest in the shares.

	/s/ Francis Cullo, Attorney-in-Fact	12/23/2024
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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POWER OF ATTORNEY

(For Executing Form ID and Forms 3, 4 and 5)

Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Joanne Bal, Kevin Trempe and Francis Cullo of Vital Farms, Inc. (the “Company”) and Jaime Chase and Jason Minio of Cooley LLP (“Cooley”), signing individually, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorneys-in fact and agents to:

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact’s substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, and their substitutes, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming (nor is the Company assuming) any of the undersigned’s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

This Power of Attorney shall supersede any prior Power of Attorney executed by the undersigned with respect to the matters described herein. This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the earliest to occur of (a) the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned’s holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, (b) revocation by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the Company and the foregoing attorneys-in fact or (c) as to any attorney-in-fact individually, until such attorney-in-fact is no longer employed by the Company or employed by or a partner at Cooley or another law firm representing the Company, as applicable.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of the date written below.

 

Date: December 11, 2024	/s/ Matthew O'Hayer
	Matthew O'Hayer

 

 

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