Potential benefits for growers and consumers include less food waste and improved yields BOISE, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The J.R. Simplot Company announced today it has entered a strategic alliance ...

J.R. Simplot Co., announced plans Wednesday to build a "state-of-the-art" potato processing plant on the site of its original facility in Caldwell, Idaho, with construction to begin in May. Simplot ...

Simplot is investing US$460m in its plant in Manitoba, Canada, as the US-based agri-food business seeks to more than double capacity. Construction will begin this spring and will expand the site’s ...

BOISE -- J.R. Simplot Co. has agreed to pay a $900,000 fine and spend about $42 million on pollution controls to cut sulfur dioxide emissions at five fertilizer plants in three states. The U.S.

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 ...

A field northeast of Aberdeen is in the final stages of transforming into Idaho’s most technologically advanced crop service facility, thanks to a multi-million-dollar agribusiness investment by J.R.

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 ...

A Grand Forks fire marshal ruled the fire that ignited Saturday at J.R. Simplot Co. in northern Grand Forks was accidental, according to the Grand Forks Fire Department. Grand Forks Fire Marshal Brian ...

ABERDEEN, Idaho — J.R. Simplot has again delayed the scheduled closures of Idaho potato processing plants in Aberdeen and Nampa, citing stronger-than-expected demand by customers. Simplot spokesman ...

POCATELLO — Prominent leaders and representatives of the community, including county commissioners, Idaho State University leadership, mayors and lawmakers, gathered inside a grand white tent Tuesday ...

The Kansas man who was exposed to ammonia at the Simplot plant recently in Power County died Wednesday, according to a University of Utah Hospital public relations representative. Derrick E. Martinez, ...

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