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Muir Looks Back On Nearly Two Decades As Idaho Potato Commission Leader
Muir Looks Back On Nearly Two Decades As Idaho Potato Commission Leader
After 18 years as the Executive Director of the Idaho Potato Commission, Frank Muir decided this fall to retire from the organization. Muir said taking over the Commission in 2003 was challenging in a variety of ways. He noted one of the biggest challenges was not trade, or government regulations, but the diets of millions of Americans ...
Washington Man Charged With Defrauding Seed Customers, Former Owner
Washington Man Charged With Defrauding Seed Customers, Former Owner
The former manager of a Liberty Lake, WA-based seed company has been charged with laundering and wiring over $15 million through several schemes to defraud the company’s former owner and its customers. Former Jacklin Seed Company General Manager Christopher Claypool faces charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering against the company’s former owner, J.R. Simplot ... Read Mor
Feds Release Final Plan For Simplot Phosphate Mines
Feds Release Final Plan For Simplot Phosphate Mines
Federal officials have released a final plan for five open-pit phosphate mines and reclamation work in eastern Idaho proposed by J.R. Simplot Company.  Late last week, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service released the jointly-prepared final environmental impact statement for the Dairy Syncline Mine Project about 14 miles east of Soda Springs.  Th...
Simplot CEO Announces Retirement
The CEO of J.R. Simplot Co. has announced his retirement.  The Idaho-based company announced recently that Bill Whitacre will step down from his top post in August after serving the company for the past 18 years.  He has been the company's CEO since 2009, where he helped expand Simplot's international footprint and boosted revenues from $4.5 billion to $...

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