It's crunch time for Tasmanian potato growers in a contract dispute with US French fry giant, Simplot.

You can't have fast food without fries — and no matter which fast food chain is serving them up, there's a good chance they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was 1979 when potato king J.R. Simplot built a 7,370-square-foot, Mediterranean-style mansion atop a prominent hill in the ...

The Tasmanian government is remaining at “arms length” from ongoing negotiations over potatoes as growers accuse a US based ...

The agricultural company J.R. Simplot Company, one of the largest potato producers in the world, struck a deal with the developers of a specific gene editing technology. That tech will allow Simplot ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simplot Corporate Headquarters, 1099 W. Front St. in Boise. Pictured on Jan. 13, 2026. Two longtime employees of J.R. Simplot Co.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...