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Lampkin Butts becomes NCC chairman

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WASHINGTON — Lampkin Butts, president and chief operating officer of Sanderson Farms, Laurel, Miss., is the new chairman of the National Chicken Council, the trade association for the chicken production and processing industry.�

Bill Lovette, president and CEO of Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., Greeley, Colo., is vice chairman, and Michael Helgeson, chief executive officer of GNP Co., St. Cloud, Minn., becomes secretary-treasurer.

The new officers were installed during the NCC Annual Conference held in Washington, D.C.  Officers serve one-year terms.

Butts has been president and COO of Sanderson Farms since November 2004. He has been with the company. . .

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