Source: THE PRODUCE NEWS, 1/19/17


President-elect Donald J. Trump will officially nominate former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue for secretary of agriculture, multiple news outlets reported Jan. 19, rounding out the new administration’s cabinet a day before inauguration. Perdue, who is no relation to the family that runs the Perdue Farms chicken enterprise, served as a state senator in Georgia before being elected governor in 2003 — the first republican governor in 130 years.

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