SUMNER PRESENTED GOLDEN EGG

         JAMES SUMNER, president of USA Egg Export Council, has been honored by the Georgia Egg Commission with the presentation of its Golden Egg Award for 2012.
         Commission board chairman Jerry Straughan presented the Award during the annual meeting of the Georgia Egg Association.  Straughan said: “Since February of 1990, Sumner has served our industry and our country as a true ambassador, being responsible for the promotion of U.S. poultry and egg products worldwide.”
         Straughan continued by saying that Sumner has been appointed by the past six Secretaries of Agriculture and U.S. Trade Representatives to serve on the Agricultural Technical Advisory Committee, and he continues to serve on the Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee.  Under the Clinton administration, he was appointed to deal with U.S.-Russian trade issues.  Currently, he is the export advisor to the American Egg Board and is president of the USAPEEC International Poultry Development Program. 
         In 2005, Sumner was elected president of the International Poultry Council, which represents the poultry industries of more than 20 countries accounting for more than 90 percent of the world’s poultry meat production. He has been re-elected to that office twice!
 
              This year, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Poultry and Food Distributors’ Association.  As president of the USA Poultry and Egg Export Council, Sumner has presided over a significant increase in poultry exports, from $700 million to more than $4 billion during recent years.
         In his closing statement, Straughan said of Sumner: “It is our belief that Jim has acted as a beacon of positive light for Georgia and America’s poultry and egg industry, acting on our behalf throughout the world.  We are pleased to present him with the Georgia Egg Commission’s Golden Egg Award for 2012!”

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