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 Klaus Thiessen Award has been in existence since 2014, but it had never gone to an agribusiness — until this year.

J R Simplot, who has died aged 99, was the potato king of America whose wealth helped create one of the world's biggest computer chip makers. The Idaho farmer increasingly dominated the state's ...

Nance Beston, Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, Wash. 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 ...

Boise, ID and Nieuwkerke, BE - The J.R. Simplot Company, a privately held food and agriculture company headquartered in Boise, Idaho, and Clarebout Potatoes, a leading potato processing company ...

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 J.R. Simplot Co. plans to acquire the operating business of Clarebout Potatoes, a Belgium-based processor. The planned acquisition brings together two market leaders in frozen potato products ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's no hot take to say that golden, delicious french fries are one of the best parts of getting fast food. What sparks debate is ...

GRAND FORKS - After a day-long union meeting, employees of J.R. Simplot went on strike, picketing outside the potato processing plant in Grand Forks at about 6 p.m. Monday. The strike came shortly ...

A hopper of flaked potatoes caught fire Wednesday at the J.R. Simplot plant off Gateway Drive in Grand Forks, making for some hot work for firefighters. The call came in about 5 p.m., said Battalion ...