SUWANEE, Ga. — Table egg producers throughout Georgia will be voting in a referendum April 1-30, 2013, on the future of the Georgia Egg Commission. Based on a Marketing Order of 1961, the Georgia Egg Commission and all other state agricultural commodity commissions must be reaffirmed every three years by producers of that commodity.
In order for the referendum to pass, 66 2/3 percent of those egg producers voting must be in favor of continuing the 52-year-old endeavor for another three years. Funding is through a mandatory assessment of 4.5 cents per 30-dozen case of. . .

