The Klaus Thiessen Award has been in existence since 2014, but it had never gone to an agribusiness — until this year. Grand Forks Region Economic Development Corp. President and CEO Keith Lund, left, ...

POCATELLO — The 46th annual Simplot Games are set to take place this week, turning the community into its own Olympic Games environment. Andrea Gumm, public affairs manager at Simplot, said the games ...

Waffle, shoestring, steak, curly, crinkle-cut, sweet potato, Belgian, traditional, or beyond –- however you like your fries, they all start as the same starch: potatoes. Yes, those unassuming lumps ...

The BoiseDev team is off for the holiday break. (We’ll keep an eye out for any major breaking stories.) While our team enjoys some downtime, we bring you a few stories you might have missed this year.

This December the public will have an opportunity to provide their thoughts to county Planning and Zoning officials regarding a proposed Simplot retail facility along the Lewisville Highway near ...

Credit: Alpha Studio 03/Shutterstock. A strike at Belgium’s Clarebout Potatoes, which is in the throes of a takeover by US-based JR Simplot, has entered a fifth day. The industrial action across ...

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 ...

The J.R. Simplot Co. plans to acquire the operating business of Clarebout Potatoes, a Belgium-based processor. The planned acquisition brings together two market leaders in frozen potato products ...

BOISE, IDAHO — The J.R. Simplot Co.’s acquisition of Clarebout Potatoes has created a frozen potato processing group that will offer a localized supply from 23 production locations, according to the ...

Credit: Alpha Studio 03/Shutterstock. US agri-food group JR Simplot has agreed to acquire Belgian potato-processing company Clarebout Potatoes for an undisclosed sum. The deal, which is expected to be ...

This story was updated Tuesday, April 1, to add two paragraphs of comment from the city of Boise. Change may be coming soon to Simplot Hill, the site just off Bogus Basin Road where the mansion ...