BOISE – A dozen years after a customer revolt forced Monsanto to ditch its genetically engineered potato, an Idaho company aims to resurrect high-tech spuds. This month, tuber processing giant J.R.

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 varieties ...

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 U.S ...

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 damages crops ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Simplot, the potato potentate and oldest member of the Forbes Rich List, has recently been planning an elaborate mausoleum for himself in his hometown of Boise, Idaho. Earlier this week it almost ...

The agricultural company J.R. Simplot Company, one of the largest potato producers in the world, struck a deal with the developers of a specific gene editing technology. That tech will allow Simplot ...

BOISE, Idaho – J.R. Simplot left home in 1923 at age 14 with four gold coins given to him by his mother. He ended his life as the spud king of America and one of the nation’s richest men. The Idaho ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Co.'s new genetically modified potato. But one of the company's oldest business partners — McDonald's — hasn't. The U.S.

BOISE, Idaho — Billionaire J.R. Simplot, the spud king of America whose wealth also helped create one of the world’s biggest computer-chip makers, died Sunday at his Boise home. He was 99. Ada County ...