BOISE Idaho J.R. “Jack” Simplot, the founder of restaurant-industry supplier J.R. Simplot Co. and a key figure in the early growth of quick-service chains like McDonald’s, died peacefully at his home ...

Agriculture is the focus of the University of Idaho’s first endowed deanship. The J.R. Simplot Family Foundation has made a “significant gift” to establish the J.R. Simplot Endowed Dean of the College ...

A local company is celebrating an anniversary. Simplot is celebrating 80 years at the Don Plant. J.R. Simplot Company began operations at its first phosphate fertilizer production facility on December ...

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 ...

CALDWELL — Community members and leaders including farmers, executives, and generations of the Simplot family gathered on Friday afternoon to celebrate the agribusiness retail company’s 80 years of ...

EAST GRAND FORKS – East Grand Forks City Council members on Tuesday approved a land exchange between the city and the J.R. Simplot Company, trading a parcel in Grand Forks bought by the council for ...