Wash. Grain Commission CEO Tom Mick will retire

"Working for Washington wheat and barley farmers has been the highlight of my career in the grain industry," Mick said. "I'm proud of what we have been able to accomplish as an industry and the leadership role the WGC has taken on issues of national significance."

Mick began his career in the grain industry as an assisstant administrator of the Colorado Wheat Administrative Committee, later rising to the post of administrator. He subsequently spent eight years as director of U.S. Wheat Associate's Southeast Asia office in Singapore followed by two years at its Washington, D.C. headquarters. He...