It's been widely grown for more than a century. The other potatoes are almost identical to russet Burbank, but the J.R. Simplot Co. of Boise, Idaho, has inserted some extra genes into them in the ...

J.R. Simplot, whose lifetime fascination with the potato helped change the nation’s eating habits and made him a billionaire, died Sunday. He was 99. Simplot, who in his prime drove around Idaho ...

On the left of each row: wilted conventional potato plants without resistance to the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine. Next to them are surviving rows of J.R. Simplot Co.'s genetically ...

to ditch its genetically engineered potato, an Idaho company aims to resurrect high-tech spuds. This month, tuber processing giant J.R. Simplot Co. asked the U.S. government to approve five ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency and US Food and Drug Administration approved a previous gene-modifying technique on Simplot potatoes. AP / Keith Ridler BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho company ...

FARGO, N.D. -- Twenty years after scientists at North Dakota State University were among the first to conduct genetically modified potato research trials in the U.S., J.R. Simplot Co. has received ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved a potato genetically engineered by Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Co. to resist the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine and ...

The hogs ate the result. When he sold the fattened pigs, Mr. Simplot made more than $7,000. That gave him capital to buy farm machinery and six horses and become a potato farmer. Next, he acquired ...

A “potato cartel” has allegedly conspired to ... Canada-based McCain Foods, the J.R. Simplot Company and Cavendish Farms – control 97% of the market, according to antitrust lawsuits filed ...

A “potato cartel” of leading food producers is to blame, five new federal lawsuits contend. Cavendish Farms, Lamb Weston, McCain Foods and the J.R. Simplot Co., which produce and sell such ...

Idaho’s dominance in potatoes grew with the innovation. Mr. Simplot bought an early electric potato sorter and by 1940 had bought or built 33 potato warehouses along the rich Snake River plains ...

Potatoes make up one of Manitoba’s top crops by dollar value and are a major agricultural export for the province.