TIFTON, Georgia– Nomination meetings to fill three positions on the Georgia Peanut Commission Board of Directors will be held January 4, 2007 in Tifton and Oglethorpe and on January 5, 2007 in Cochran. The Georgia Farm Bureau Federation will conduct the meetings to fill terms in the Commission’s District II, IV and V which expire in May 2007.

Georgia Farm Bureau encourages peanut farmers to attend the meeting in their area and participate in making nominations for these Commission board positions.

The District II nomination meeting will be held at the Rural Development Center in Tifton at 9 a.m. on January 4th . The incumbent in that district is Armond Morris of Irwin County. Counties in District Two include Atkinson, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Coffee, Colquitt, Cook, Echols, Irwin, Lanier, Lowndes, Thomas, Tift, Turner and Worth.

The District V nomination meeting will be held at the Macon County Extension Service Office in Oglethorpe on January 4th at 11:30 a.m. The incumbent in that district is Donald Chase of Macon County. Counties in District Five include Chattahoochee, Clay, Lee, Macon, Marion, Peach, Quitman, Randolph, Schley, Stewart, Sumter, Talbot, Taylor, Terrell, and Webster.

The District IV nomination meeting will be held at the Bleckley County Extension Service Office in Cochran on January 5th at 10 a.m. The incumbent in that district is Rodney Dawson of Bleckley County. Counties in District Four include Bleckley, Crisp, Dodge, Dooly, Houston, Laurens, Pulaski, Telfair, Twiggs, Wheeler, Wilcox and Wilkinson.

The Georgia peanut production area is divided into five districts based on acreage distribution and geographical location with one Board member representing each district. Each nominee must produce peanuts and live within the district for which he is nominated.

Any producer living in the district may be nominated or make nominations at the meeting. Incumbents are eligible for re-nomination. If more than one person is nominated, an election will be conducted, by mail ballot, at a date to be announced. Commission by-laws state that a person must receive a majority of the votes cast for a position in order to be elected to the Board. If only one person qualifies for the position, no election is required and the nominated person automatically becomes a member of the Commission Board. Commission members have terms of three years each.