Oct. 7—MOSES LAKE — The Association of Washington Business stopped at the J.R. Simplot factory in Moses Lake on Friday, during day three of their eighth-annual Manufacturing Week bus tour. "We're out ...

It was 1979 when potato king J.R. Simplot built a 7,370-square-foot, Mediterranean-style mansion atop a prominent hill in the Boise Highlands. Although the mansion has since been demolished, Simplot’s ...

John Richard “Jack” Simplot died peacefully at his home in Boise May 25 with Esther, his wife of 36 years, by his side. He was 99. J. R. Simplot was the founder of the Boise-based agribusiness company ...

BOISE, Idaho (Reuters) - J.R. Simplot, the billionaire founder of the Boise, Idaho-based agriculture business that bears his name and who helped make French fries a staple of the American diet and ...

Self-made billionaire J.R. Simplot was the quintessential entrepreneur. Born in 1909 as John Richard Simplot in Dubuque, Iowa, the oldest member of Forbes’ 400 Richest Americans, died Sunday at age 99 ...

Feeding a growing world requires many components: knowledge, science, humility and, honestly, a little luck sometimes. At Simplot, one piece of the science part of this convergence is agronomy. That’s ...

A JR Simplot potato processing facility in Caldwell, Idaho in 2020. Photo: txking/Shutterstock The market for frozen potatoes is hot — and Boise-based Simplot is making a bet likely valued at billions ...

Health Canada has notified J.R. Simplot Company (Simplot) that it has no objection to the food use of Simplot Innate® potato event Gen2-Z6. The Department conducted a comprehensive assessment of this ...

J.R. Simplot, a billionaire who grew up in a sod-roofed log cabin and dropped out of school at 14, then marshaled luck, spunk and inventiveness to fashion an entrepreneurial career that included ...

WORKERS at Simplot’s Devonport factory will strike for four hours on Friday as the vegetable processor holds firm over pay negotiations. Simplot — Tasmania’s last remaining vegetable processor — has ...

US food-and-agriculture firm the J.R. Simplot Company has announced plans to acquire the operating business of Belgian potato processor Clarebout for an undisclosed sum. This acquisition will bring ...