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and livestock industries of Western North America. The Industrial
Chemical business unit (2.2 percent of MCG's 1992 revenues) markets
ammonia and phosphates used in different nonagricultural
applications. The Consumer Products business unit (1 percent of
MCG's 1992 revenues) produces and markets fertilizers for home and
garden use, mainly in the Western United States and Hawaii.
MCG operates four fertilizer manufacturing plants in Idaho,
California, and Manitoba, Canada. The largest facilities are the
Smoky Canyon Mine (near the Idaho-Wyoming border) and the Don
Manufacturing complex (west of Pocatello, Idaho).
In the beginning of fiscal year 1992, J.R. Simplot Co.
purchased Chevron's fertilizer manufacturing operations.
MCG also operates a silica sand operation in Overton, Nevada,
and an agricultural chemical formulating plant in Mountain Home,
Idaho.
J.R. Simplot Co. has been isolated from the pressures of other
U.S. fertilizer producers, mainly located in the Southeast. MCG
sells most of its fertilizer in inland markets, where access to
other producers by land or water via the west coast is expensive.
MCG sells more than 20 percent of its output in Idaho and 85
percent of its sales in protected markets west of the Rockies.
5. Development and Corporate (Administrative) Group
J.R. Simplot Co., through DCG, owns other agribusiness
ventures, including three cheese plants (e.g., Arpin Dairy, Inc.,
in Arpin, Wisconsin; Swiss Village Cheese Co., in Nampa, Idaho; and
Washington Farms Distribution, Inc., in Mount Vernon, Washington).
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