US agri-food group JR Simplot has agreed to acquire Belgian potato-processing company Clarebout Potatoes for an undisclosed ...

Boise-based Simplot plans to acquire Belgium's Clarebout Potatoes, expanding its global footprint and strengthening European ...

US food and agriculture firm J.R. Simplot Company plans to acquire the operating business of Belgium's Clarebout Potatoes for ...

Family- and privately owned Simplot is one of the world’s biggest processors of potatoes, particularly frozen French fries. So is Clarebout, a family business based in Nieuwkerke (West Flanders, ...

The J.R. Simplot Co.’s acquisition of Clarebout Potatoes has created a frozen potato processing group that will offer a ...

Mr. Simplot, an eighth-grade dropout, left his family's Idaho farm at 14 after an argument with his father and went into the potato-growing business for himself.

Developed by the agribusiness giant J.R. Simplot, a major player in the $3.7 billion American potato market, the product won approval last week from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

BOISE – 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 that still ...

Three Manitoba farm families are demonstrating that sustainable agriculture is more than a buzzword — it’s a daily commitment rooted in long-term thinking, innovation, and collaboration.

This month, tuber processing giant J.R. Simplot Co. asked the U.S. government to approve five varieties of biotech potatoes. They’re engineered not to develop ugly black bruises.

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 ...

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 ...