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 ...

As Simplot continues its global expansion, the company requires a sophisticated travel platform capable of meeting 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 ...

MOSES LAKE — Technology built into processing machinery at a Moses Lake business helped extinguish a fire before it could ...

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 ...

J.R. Simplot, pictured in 2002, is known in Boise for driving his white Lincoln Town Car with "Mr Spud" vanity plates to McDonald's for hash browns or french fries. (File / The Spokesman-Review) BOISE ...

Vegetable processing company Simplot Australia has announced it is downsizing operations at its Bathurst plant, with at least 110 full-time jobs to go. The Bathurst plant and Simplot's operations at ...

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’ ...

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 ...

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 ...