DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intrepid Potash, Inc. (“Intrepid” or “the Company”) (NYSE:IPI), a leading diversified mineral company serving the agriculture and animal feed markets, and the only U.S. producer of muriate of potash, today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) selected Intrepid’s sulfate of potash (SOP) project for approximately $139 million in proposed matching funding to support the construction of a SOP manufacturing facility near Carlsbad, New Mexico, through it