Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was 1979 when potato king J.R. Simplot built a 7,370-square-foot, Mediterranean-style mansion atop a prominent hill in the ...

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 ...

The agricultural company J.R. Simplot Company, one of the largest potato producers in the world, struck a deal with the developers of a specific gene editing technology. That tech will allow Simplot ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simplot Corporate Headquarters, 1099 W. Front St. in Boise. Pictured on Jan. 13, 2026. Two longtime employees of J.R. Simplot Co.

J.R. "Jack" Simplot, 99, who launched an agribusiness empire that supplied french fries to the McDonald's fast-food chain and then used his billion-dollar fortune to invest in computer chips, died May ...

The J.R. Simplot Company and Plant Sciences Inc., have announced a strategic partnership to bring the first commercially gene-edited strawberry to supermarkets. The alliance plans to leverage the gene ...

BOISE, IDAHO — The J.R. Simplot Co.’s acquisition of Clarebout Potatoes has created a frozen potato processing group that will offer a localized supply from 23 production locations, according to the ...

The following is a news release from The Simplot Games. POCATELLO — The Simplot Games will welcome Tara Davis-Woodhall and Hunter Woodhall to Pocatello for the 46th annual Simplot Games. The national ...

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 ...