Simplot

Changes are coming to the JR Simplot Company.  The Boise-based company announced Monday it will merge a pair of divisions into one, along with making leadership changes as well.  Company officials announced it would merge Simplot Australia with the Simplot Food Group forming a new group: Simplot Global Foods.  The business will...

After 18 years as the Executive Director of the Idaho Potato Commission, Frank Muir decided this fall to retire from the organization. Muir said taking over the Commission in 2003 was challenging in a variety of ways. He noted one of the biggest challenges was not trade, or government regulations, but the diets of millions of Americans ...

On Wednesday the EPA announced that Simplot has agreed to pay a $65,248 penalty for federal pesticide handling and storage requirement violations. The violations occurred at their company’s Umatilla, OR and Moreland, ID retail facilities. I ...

A Spokane man has been sentenced for his role in a multimillion dollar fraud scheme that involved grass seed at facilities in western Oregon. Christopher Claypool, 52, was sentenced last week to three years in federal prison and three years of supervised release ...

The former manager of a Liberty Lake, WA-based seed company has been charged with laundering and wiring over $15 million through several schemes to defraud the company’s former owner and its customers. Former Jacklin Seed Company General Manager Christopher Claypool faces charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering against the company’s former owner, J.R. Simplot ... Read Mor

Federal officials have released a final plan for five open-pit phosphate mines and reclamation work in eastern Idaho proposed by J.R. Simplot Company.  Late last week, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service released the jointly-prepared final environmental impact statement for the Dairy Syncline Mine Project about 14 miles east of Soda Springs.  Th...

The University of Idaho announced Tuesday design of the nation’s largest research dairy can now begin as the school has secured an additional $11 million for the Idaho Center for Agriculture Food and the Environment, better known as CAFE.  Ear...

Simplot has acquired gene editing licensing rights that could one day be used to help farmers produce more crops and make grocery store offerings such as strawberries, potatoes and avocados stay fresher longer.  Boise-based Simplot announced Monday an agreement with DowDuPont Inc. and...

The CEO of J.R. Simplot Co. has announced his retirement.  The Idaho-based company announced recently that Bill Whitacre will step down from his top post in August after serving the company for the past 18 years.  He has been the company's CEO since 2009, where he helped expand Simplot's international footprint and boosted revenues from $4.5 billion to $...

A Smiplot Feeders beef cattle lot in Wallula has agreed to pay a Washington Department of Ecology fine as well as invest in a project that reduces small-particle pollution.   In 2015, the DOE fined Simplot $50,000 for failing to manage air pollution, which included dust and dried manure.  DO...