The Idaho-based food processor and farm supplier has filed a federal complaint claiming the Great American Insurance Co. wrongly denied its claim related to money swindled by a former employee. The ...

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 ...

POST FALLS -- J.R. Simplot Company officials say they are shutting down the Jacklin Seed facility in northern Idaho and moving the bluegrass seed operation to Washington state. Simplot spokesman David ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE FROM JR SIMPLOT: The J. R. Simplot Company announces the acquisition of Scootney Springs Seed, a production and seed-cleaning facility near Othello, Wash. This facility includes ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency and US Food and Drug Administration approved a previous gene-modifying technique on Simplot potatoes. AP / Keith Ridler BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho company that ...

POCATELLO — Improvements to stop phosphorus releases from J.R. Simplot Co.’s local Don Plant into the Portneuf River are now between two and three years ahead of schedule, estimates Bruce Olenick, ...

BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho company that successfully brought genetically modified potatoes to the market announced an agreement Thursday to help a California-based plant breeding company grow ...

Potato processor Simplot Australia has refused to budge on its second price offer to Tasmanian farmers for their potato crop this season. Spuds are more costly to grow in Australia than the powerhouse ...

POCATELLO — Two Simplot contract employees were injured following an ammonia release at the Don Plant early Tuesday morning, Simplot reported. The plant was evacuated because of the ammonia release ...

The J.R. Simplot potato processing plant in Grand Forks will close for two weeks, beginning on Thursday, April 23. The plant is closing for a period of cleaning and maintenance and was originally ...