The Klaus Thiessen Award has been in existence since 2014, but it had never gone to an agribusiness — until this year. Grand Forks Region Economic Development Corp. President and CEO Keith Lund, left, ...

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’ ...

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 Skidmore and Sarah Dance had ...

McDonald’s has released an AI-generated Christmas ad, sparking online backlash, which grew so fierce that McDonald’s turned off comments on YouTube before setting the video to private. However, the AI ...

The Simplot Co. completed its acquisition of Belgium-based Clarebout Potatoes, a leading European producer of frozen potato products. The acquisition, announced in July, brings together two ...

Credit: Alpha Studio 03/Shutterstock. A strike at Belgium’s Clarebout Potatoes, which is in the throes of a takeover by US-based JR Simplot, has entered a fifth day. The industrial action across ...

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 ...

A federal judge has ordered the J.R. Simplot agribusiness company to pay for the upkeep of cattle allegedly contaminated with heavy metals during litigation over the matter. The ruling results from a ...

BOISE, Idaho — The Simplot Family Foundation will submit plans to the City of Boise on Tuesday for a new 200-acre public park along North Bogus Basin Road. Jack's Park, also known as Simplot Hill, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This story was updated Tuesday, April 1, to add two paragraphs of comment from the city of Boise. Change may be coming soon to ...