ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — James Sumner, president of the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council, has been honored by the Georgia Egg Commission with the GEC Golden Egg award for 2012.
The award, presented by GEC board chairman Jerry Straughan during the annual meeting here of the Georgia Egg Association, was given in recognition of Sumner's promotion of Georgia's and the nation's poultry and egg products worldwide.
A USAPEEC president, Sumner has presided over an increase in poultry exports from $700 million to more than $4 billion in recent years.
Sumner has been appointed by the past. . .