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Sad Passing of Industry Stalwart Blake Lovette

10/04/2020

Blake Lovette

Blake Lovette passed on September 29th in Winston Salem, NC.  Raised on a farm in Wilkes County he graduated from North Carolina State University in 1965 and joined Holly Farms co-established by his brother, the late Fred Lovette.  In his career in the broiler industry, Lovette served as a plant manager for Holly Farms in Temperanceville, VA, as Vice-president of Holly Farms in 1976, at Valmac Industries in 1978, at Perdue Farms in 1985 with a return to Holly Farms as president and COO in 1988.  He left the company in 1999 following the acquisition by Tyson Foods.  He then joined ConAgra Poultry in 1998 and retired in 2003 after the Pilgrim's Pride acquisition.

 

Lovette was active in civic affairs serving on the Wilkes Board of Education, the Wilkes Regional Medical Center, the Wilkes Economic Development Corporation and the Wilkes Art Gallery. 

 

During his career he served on the National Chicken Council including three years as chairperson, the U.S. Poultry and Egg Association, the American Poultry Export Council, the N.C. Poultry Federation and the Arkansas Poultry Federation.  Lovette was inducted in the N.C. Poultry Federation Hall of Fame in 2010.


 
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