J.R. Simplot never dealt with small potatoes. This is a man who dropped out of school in the eighth grade and went on to ...

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 ...

Routine tests found elevated E. coli levels at Quinn's Pond, prompting officials to issue warnings against swimming.

Boise Parks And Recreation posted warning signs at Esther Simplot Park Pond 1 following water quality test results showing E.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

JR Simplot, the billionaire founder of the Idaho-based agriculture business that bears his name and who helped make French fries a staple of the American diet and waistline, died on Sunday at the age ...