National Chicken Council Announces Newly Elected Directors and Executive Committee

Newly elected members of the National Chicken Council’s Executive Committee and Board of Directors were announced at the organization’s Annual Conference here today.

Elected to serve one-year terms on the Executive Committee were: Charles C. Allen III, Allen Family Foods, Seaford, DE; John Bekkers, Gold Kist, Atlanta, GA; Clifford Butler, Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation, Pittsburg, TX; Paul Carter, Foster Farms, Livingston, CA; Anthony Chivinski, Pennfield Farms, Lancaster, PA; Gary George, George’s, Inc., Springdale, AR; Mark Hickman, Peco Foods, Tuscaloosa, AL; Robert Johnson, House of Raeford, Rose Hill, NC; Greg Lee, Tyson Foods, Springdale, AR; Elton Maddox, Wayne Farms LLC, Oakwood, GA; Jim Perdue, Perdue Farms, Salisbury, MD; and Joe Sanderson, Jr., Sanderson Farms, Laurel, MS.

Elected to three-year terms on the Board of Directors were: John Bekkers, Gold Kist, Atlanta, GA; Ronald Cameron, Mountaire Corporation, N. Little Rock, AR; Paul Carter, Foster Farms, Livingston, CA; Dean Falk, Sylvest Farms, Montgomery, AL; Marvin Green, Keystone Foods, Huntsville, AL; Mark Hickman, Peco Foods, Tuscaloosa, AL; Robert Johnson, House of Raeford, Rose Hill, NC; Greg Lee, Tyson Foods, Springdale, AR; Blake Lovette, ConAgra Foods, Poultry Division, Duluth, GA; Al Rhodes, Charoen Pokphand (U.S.A.), Eufaula, AL; Joe Sanderson, Jr., Sanderson Farms, Laurel, MS; and Tom Shelton, Case Farms, Salisbury, MD.

Elected to two-year terms were Kerry Kinyon, Peterson Farms, Decatur, AR, and Michael Pastore, Park Farms, Canton, OH. Jerry Dowd, ConAgra Foods, Poultry Division, Duluth, GA, was elected to a new one-year term.

Elected to one-year terms as directors-at-large were: Lawrence (Ronnie) Clark, Chas. N. Clark Associates, Laurel, MS; James Bell, Cobb-Vantress, Siloam Springs, AR; W. A. (Billy) Crider, Jr., Crider Poultry, Stillmore, GA; Randall Marcuson, Embrex, Research Triangle Park, NC; Whitner Slagsvol, Greater South Insurance Agency, Columbia, SC; Don Washington, International Paper, Memphis, TN; Garnet O’Marrow, Intervet, Millsboro, DE; Dr. John Greaves, Kemin Industries, Des Moines, IA; Martijn Hillenius, Meyn Poultry Processing LLC, Flowery Branch, GA; Thomas White, Poly-Clip System, Mundelein, IL; Francis Adriaens, Renessen LLC, Bannockburn, IL; William Batjer, Rhodia, Cranbury, NJ; and James Makemson, Turner Universal Construction, Huntsville, AL.

The National Chicken Council represents integrated chicken producer-processors, the companies that produce, process, and market chickens. Member companies of NCC account for 95 percent of the chicken sold in the United States.

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