Pallets in Idaho. Delivered by the truckload.

Idaho freight starts on irrigated Snake River Plain farms: potatoes around Blackfoot, dairies and cheese plants across the Magic Valley, and bean and beet processing at Twin Falls. It reaches markets on I-84, I-86 and I-15, with Boise's warehouses anchoring the west end.

The Idaho State Department of Agriculture ranks the state first nationally in potatoes, barley, peppermint oil, alfalfa hay and trout, second in sugar beets, and third in milk and cheese. Food and beverage processing is Idaho's second-largest manufacturing sector, the department says. Blackfoot bills itself as the Potato Capital of the World, Twin Falls grew into a processing center for beans and sugar beets, and seven south-central counties from Elmore to Minidoka hold most of the state's dairy jobs. Boise, Meridian and Nampa anchor the Treasure Valley's warehouses and plants.

That mix means pallet demand follows storage cellars and processing lines more than store shelves. Potato packers and frozen-product plants ship from storage most of the year, cheese and yogurt plants need sound pallets under heavy cases, and the fall potato and beet harvests land in the same weeks. Frozen potato products rank among the top exports through the Seattle–Tacoma gateway, and export loads need heat-treated pallets. Treasure Valley distribution adds year-round 48x40 business.