Creamery Shuts After WalMart Deal

Days after the Idaho State Department of Agriculture touted that Wal-Mart has begun carrying cheeses from Nelson-Ricks Creamery Company’s Rexburg plant, the company announced it will end production this month. “What’s happened to the company has been devastating,” president Reagan Wood said Monday.  “The community and the employees have been impacted, and we did everything we could to not have that happen.” More than 15 people will lose their jobs because of the closure, Wood confirms, but the company will continue to operate in a different form.  It will now get its cheeses from other Idaho manufacturers, and package that cheese at its facility in Salt Lake City, Wood says/ Molly Messick , StateImpact. More here. (AP file photo of dairy cows for illustrative purposes)

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