Almond Rustlers Nabbed in California:
Robert Siegel talks with Dave Phippen, one of the owners of almond growers Travaille and Phippen of Ripon, California, about the break-up of an almond theft ring in California this week. Trevaille and Phippen had 88,000 pounds of almonds stolen this summer. Only 5,000 pounds of their almonds were recovered, but Dave Phippen says they are still very happy about this development. He says most of their almonds had already been shipped out, and that the recovered almonds had been re-packaged in small, generic packages.
(Via NPR News: Top Stories.) For the geographically impaired, Ripon is the first town south of the 120/99 interchange north of Modesto. Obviously, this isn't the first time that Ripon has made the NPR Top Stories list (this was a follow up story), but it is good to hear that it is, once again, safe to grow almonds in the central valley.
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