US food and agribusiness company J.R. Simplot has said it is to permanently close its Hermiston, Oregon potato processing plant in a phased shutdown during the next nine months. The company said the ...

It could take a while to determine the cause of Monday´s spectacular feed bunker fire at the J.R. Simplot Co. potato-processing plant, fire and company officials said. The mission of Firehouse is to ...

That Simplot Foods plant that Grand Forks residents drive by along Gateway Drive has a sort of permanence. It's been there for a half century. Inside, the Simplot plant is a changing, evolving place ...

The J.R. Simplot Company has delayed the closure of two potato processing plants in Idaho. Simplot spokesman David Cuoio told the Capital Press (http://bit.ly/1sUMHyH ...

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 ...

The J.R. Simplot Co.'s planned closure of its potato processing plant in the Eastern Idaho community of Aberdeen has been pushed back another month. KPVI-TV reports that Aberdeen Mayor Morgan Anderson ...

CHICAGO — The Kraft Heinz Co. and Simplot Food Group, a division of the J.R. Simplot Co., have come to terms on a new agreement establishing Boise, Idaho-based Simplot as the exclusive manufacturer ...

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 ...