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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fertilizer producers Mosaic and Simplot say they support keeping countervailing duties on Moroccan and Russian phosphate fertilizer in the five-year review now underway. The tariffs on both countries’ ...

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 ...

Credit: Alpha Studio 03/Shutterstock. US agri-food group JR Simplot has agreed to acquire Belgian potato-processing company Clarebout Potatoes for an undisclosed sum. The deal, which is expected to be ...

BOISE (Idaho Statesman) — Two longtime employees of J.R. Simplot Co. took on the Boise-based potato giant over its COVID-19 vaccine policy. But they didn’t get the outcome they were seeking. Howard ...